Why do we experience vertigo?
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The Importance of Balance in Balance Medicine
The way that people refer to vertigo and conversation as something that happens when you're very high up. So why might being in a high place up a ladder or at the top of a skyscraper suddenly create the feeling of unsteadiness and dizziness in somebody? That's a great question and there's two explanations for that. The first is it's pretty scary because it's a binary outcome. You either fall and die or don't and live, so we begin to sweat and tense up. And the second thing is that it shows how much we rely on our eyes. As you look from one point of infinity to another point of infinity there's no reference point and so you can
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