Physical Therapy at Chicago Dizziness and Hearing (CDH)

CDH has three experienced vestibular physical therapists on staff that offer effective and innovative treatments for dizziness and imbalance. Because of CDH has a large volume of patients with dizziness, we offer several treatment techniques that are unique in Chicago as well as generally unavailable.

Canalith Repositioning treatment for BPPV	Conventional Vestibular Rehabilitation	Wii Fit training for Balance
Tai Chi for Balance	Dr Sam Puma's exercises for motion intolerance. See also "motion sickness" page.	Tilt training for orthostatic intolerance

(Vestibular Rehabilitation)

Nicole Steinberg, DPT, practices vestibular physical therapy both for Chicago Dizziness and Hearing (all day on Friday) and also for Peak Therapeutics, another vestibular rehabilitation practice in Chicago. The "DPT" degree stands for doctor of physical therapy. It is an allied health degree. Nicole is the person to see in our practice for motion sickness habituation (Puma protocol exercises).

Frank Dilberto, PT, MS, OCS, practices vestibular physical therapy on Monday and Wednesday. Frank specializes in Cervical Vertigo and also has special expertise in using the Wii-Fit for balance training as well as Tilt training. Frank's cervical vertigo specialization is supported by his orthopedic specialization as well as a 1-year fellowship in manual therapy at the University of Illinois.

Janet Helminski, Ph.D, P.T. is the senior vestibular physical therapist at Chicago Dizziness and Hearing. She is has been a vestibular physical therapist since 1988, and she often gives courses on vestibular rehabilitation.Her Ph.D, from Northwestern, is in neuroscience. Janet is also an associate professor at Midwestern University, a PT school in a suburb of Chicago (Downers Grove), where she teaches neuroscience.

Their email is PT@dizziness-and-balance.com.

Previous Physical Therapists who have worked and trained at CDH

Our practice has a large exposure to complex and unusual patients with serious inner ear and brain conditions. Perhaps for this reason, over the years we have had had several other physical therapists work for us. We are proud to note that several have continued to provide sophisticated vestibular physical therapy services elsewhere in the Chicago metropolitan area. We know that these people have had a good grounding in vestibular physical therapy. They include:

• Tom Lenz, P.T. (Staff physical therapist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
• Kathy Martinez, P.T. (An instructor in the Northwestern University Physical Therapy Program)
• Tammy Ostrowski, P.T. (Kankakee area)
• Rupangi Patel, P.T. (Private practice in Schaumberg area)