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Richard Grunewald

Richard Grunewald

Professor Richard Grunewald, NHS Consultant Neurologist in Sheffield specializing in functional neurological disorder (FND), epilepsy, and chronic dizziness.

Sep 16, 2026

15:17
Yes.
15:17
So pain is the obvious one, but there are other things.
15:20
So dizziness, for example, what's happening there? Well, of course, the perception from the, um, uh, inner ear about, you know, balance is, is really complicated how that is processed, and it's very easy for the emotional brain to, uh, disrupt the signals so that people feel that they're not balancing properly.
15:39
And, and we are-- actually, we think of balance as being an, an ear problem, but it isn't.
15:43
It's really complicated.
15:44
When you, when you look at how you balance to walk, um, it's, there's something very clever and, and very, um, special about it.
15:53
You-- there's a lot of processing that goes on in the brain to enable you to walk, um, and not lose your balance, especially as a biped.

28 MINS LATER

44:08
So what have you seen help then?

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