[Physical and drug therapy for vertigo and ataxia (author's transl)]

Vertigo occurs either with motion stimulation which causes an intersensory mismatch or by a dysfunction of one of the stabilizing sensory systems, representing either a "physiological" or a "pathological" vertigo syndrome, respectively. This review emphasizes the differential effects of physical maneuvers and drugs and surgery in the prevention or treatment of motion sickness, height vertigo, head extension vertigo, as well as peripheral labyrinthine lesions, paroxysmal positional vertigo, Menière's syndrome, vertiginous epilepsy and phobic vertigo.