A repositioning manoeuvre is hard to do alone: you cannot read a leaflet with your eyes shut and the room moving. VertigoMe holds the phone in front of your face like a mirror, reads the angle from the motion sensors, and tells you MORE, BACK, or counts the hold out loud with a tick in your hand, so your eyes can stay closed.
Every manoeuvre starts by asking which ear you are treating, with a note to use the ear your clinician identified and to ask first if you are not sure. The library is labelled as an educational guide, not medical advice or a diagnosis, and it says to do the exercises your clinician recommended. VertigoMe does not choose an exercise for you.
You hold the phone in front of your face like a mirror with the hand opposite the treated ear, and it stays with your face for the whole manoeuvre. The accelerometer gives the angle of your head; the app compares it with the target for each stage (for the Epley: lie back and hang, roll, sit up) and speaks the instruction, then MORE or BACK until you are within the band, then locks with a double buzz and counts the hold. Head turns that gravity cannot see are timed by voice. Balance retraining is the exception: the phone lies flat against your chest and measures sway.
Each session is capped at three rounds. If you are still spinning after a manoeuvre, the done screen offers to go again and shows which round you are on.
Finishing a manoeuvre logs it as a relief on the spin it belongs to, and the done screen asks one question, how helpful was this, so the What Worked page can score it like any other treatment. Gaze sessions are logged on their own and feed the programme level.
Gaze stabilisation is the VOR exercise: keep your eyes on a letter while turning your head side to side, then faster, then up and down, then against a moving target. With camera coaching on, the front camera tracks your head turns and tells you when swings are too shallow or behind the pace. The camera is analysis only, with no preview and nothing recorded, and the exercise works without it.
Epley manoeuvre, Semont manoeuvre, BBQ roll manoeuvre, Brandt-Daroff exercise, balance retraining and habituation exercises, plus the gaze stabilisation trainer. Six guided exercises and a gaze programme.
No. The exercises are the standard ones vestibular physiotherapists teach, presented as an educational guide. You choose the exercise and the ear your clinician identified; the app coaches the movement. Stop if you get severe or unusual symptoms and talk to your clinician.
Only the phone. Motion sensors do the angle coaching; the camera is optional and used only for the gaze trainer. Voice can be switched off if you prefer ticks alone.
