About Us
Overview
VTA supports people experiencing dizziness, vertigo, unsteadiness, motion sensitivity, visual disturbance, or falls, including symptoms following illness, trauma, or brain injury. The service is particularly suited to clients whose vestibular problems are under‑recognised in routine care and are limiting day‑to‑day function, rehabilitation progress, or return to work.
VTA also works extensively with insurance providers, case managers, solicitors, and vocational rehabilitation/RTW specialists when vestibular symptoms influence recovery, work capacity, and decisions about rehabilitation input.
What We Do
VTA provides comprehensive vestibular and balance assessment for adults and children, combining detailed clinical history, oculomotor and vestibular testing, and functional balance and gait evaluation. This structured process clarifies likely diagnoses and informs clear, goal‑focused rehabilitation plans.
Evidence‑based vestibular rehabilitation programmes are used to improve gaze stability, balance, mobility, and confidence in everyday and work activities. Individualised programmes combine vestibular education, adaptation and substitution exercises, habituation tasks, balance and gait training, symptom‑management strategies, and home exercises tailored to each client’s environment and goals.
VTA manages a broad range of vestibular conditions including BPPV, vestibular neuritis or labyrinthitis, unilateral or bilateral vestibular hypofunction, vestibular migraine, PPPD, and ABI/TBI‑related dizziness. For clients in rehabilitation or legal pathways, reports clearly describe functional impact, prognosis, and implications for sustainable return to work and long‑term independence.
How we work
Vestibular Therapy Associates delivers flexible, accessible care through clinic‑based, virtual, and home‑based pathways so that clients can participate fully in rehabilitation without unnecessary symptom provocation from travel or busy environments. Care is structured, progressive, and goal‑driven, with regular review and adjustment to match each client’s tolerance and stage of recovery.
Home and Community Visits
Home‑based assessment and treatment are offered to minimise symptom‑provoking travel that can worsen dizziness, fatigue, and nausea and reduce capacity for therapy on the same day.
Reducing travel‑related flares helps preserve treatment effectiveness and supports better adherence to rehabilitation.
Associates are positioned to reach most parts of England within an approximate 2–3 hour return journey, providing practical home‑visit coverage for clients who need this level of support.
As symptom tolerance and resilience to movement and visual stimuli improve, therapy is progressed to outdoor, community, and fitness‑focused rehabilitation to mirror real‑world demands and each client’s recovery trajectory.
Virtual Clinics
Virtual vestibular consultations and therapy sessions are available across the UK and internationally, using structured, supervised programmes supported by growing evidence for the effectiveness of remote vestibular rehabilitation.
This format reduces travel burden, improves accessibility, and maintains continuity of care for clients who cannot attend frequent in‑person sessions.
Treatment Approach
Care is delivered using a patient‑centred, goal‑oriented model that emphasises clear explanations, collaborative decision‑making, and supported self‑management throughout rehabilitation.
Education on symptom mechanisms, pacing, and graded exposure is integrated into each plan so that clients understand short‑term symptom changes and how these contribute to longer‑term adaptation.
Progress is reviewed regularly, with exercises and functional tasks adjusted in partnership with the client and, where appropriate, referrers or case managers.
As clients improve, programmes are refined towards higher‑level balance, dual‑tasking, and specific work or lifestyle demands to support a safe, confident return to daily activities and employment.
Vestibular Screening Service
VTA offers a structured vestibular screening service to help funders and professionals decide when full specialist assessment is required and when symptoms can be managed with monitoring and targeted advice. This is particularly valuable when clients describe vague dizziness, disproportionate fatigue, or intolerance of movement and busy environments, but deny classic vertigo and struggle to articulate their difficulties.
The screening service provides a focused review of symptoms, risk factors, functional impact, and red flags, with brief vestibular and balance tests where appropriate. A concise report then sets out whether no further vestibular input is needed, whether simple strategies and monitoring are sufficient, or whether comprehensive vestibular assessment and formal reporting are recommended.
The pathway is designed to support proportionate spending by matching the intensity of assessment to the level of risk, complexity, and functional impact. When a client progresses from screening into rehabilitation with VTA, the initial screening fee is offset by a reduced cost for the subsequent full assessment.
Partnerships
VTA works collaboratively with case managers, insurers, medico‑legal teams, and clinical referrers where dizziness and balance issues affect rehabilitation progress, work, or legal processes.
Clear communication and structured reporting support timely, informed decisions about rehabilitation input and funding.
Samy was the first medical professional to believe me and listen to me about my very real symptoms of very poor balance, coordination and feeling unwell. He noticed abnormal eye movements called oscillopsia which I hadn't known about, but explained my difficulty focusing on unmoving objects and written words.
Samy gave me the tools I needed to identify my problems, especially with his suggestion to cut out inflammatory foods, and recommended I explore if my touch and sensations are affected by getting my partner to lightly touch soles of feet.
I've been on a long journey, but with the validation, Samy gave me the confidence to keep pushing for referrals and testing when the NHS had been largely unhelpful for ten years of my ongoing symptoms.
I have now been diagnosed with Friedrich's ataxia and sensory peripheral nerve damage. I truly believe without seeing Samy first, I would still be undiagnosed.
He is a lovely person, knowledgeable and I was very impressed by his curiosity to figure out the cause of my problems when many doctors previously had shown little interest, claimed it was 'all in my head', and would offer anti anxiety and depression medication instead of bothering to look for the root cause.
Highly recommend dizzycare clinic, and am very grateful to Samy for all his advice, and for believing me when everyone else was telling me it's all in my head.
If others see this I would like to reassure you your symptoms are not imagined, often we know our bodies better than any Dr, keep pushing for those referrals and tests, you deserve answers and treatment.
If your problems are vestibular, Samy can help you. In my case, with what we now know to be a genetic disease that is incurable, Samy was still the best place for me to start.
Samy was highly recommended at a time I was extremely ill. Other medical professionals were unable to diagnose my illness and after hitting a very low point I saw Samy. Straight away he diagnosed Vestibular migraines.
My road to recovery started then. My illness started September and now its February. My journey to recovery is slow and steady all with the help of Samy. I cant thank Samy enough for all his help and support. 😊
After suffering with balance, lack of concentration, motion sickness and tiredness for over 12 months and being told I had PPPD by a NHS Neurology Consultant and my GP having no knowledge of this disorder I took matters into my own hands. Fortunately for me I found Sammy at the Dizzy Clinic.
On my first visit he asked several questions regarding my symptoms and put me through a few balance/visual tests he confirmed I was suffering from Vestibular Migraine and PPPD was a result of Migraine he explained we needed to treat the Migraine along with building my neurological connections associated with balance.
I have had three consultations with Sammy I’m now able to identify my migraine triggers and have worked through several exercises to strengthen my brain/body communication signals. I’m confident in dealing with my symptoms and able to take back control of my life.
I would urge anyone suffering with either Vestibular Migraine or PPPD to contact the Clinic as you won’t be disappointed.
