Dr. Laura Plummer.

The room moves and nobody has told you why

You roll over in bed a specific way now. You touch the counter when you stand up. You said no to something last month because you were not sure you would be steady.

Dizziness is never only a symptom. It quietly shrinks the map of where you are willing to go. Dr. Laura Plummer spends her days handing that map back.

How she works

Laura is a licensed physical therapist and a Certified Vestibular/Vertigo Specialist II, the advanced level of that certification. That matters, because dizziness has more than one cause and the right treatment for one is the wrong treatment for another.

So she tests before she treats. A cause-first evaluation, then a plan built for what she actually finds. She is calm about it, and she explains what she is doing while she does it, which is usually the part that takes the fear down first.

Her work is not only vestibular. She treats sports orthopedic injuries, post-surgical joint replacements, gait instability, and fall prevention for seniors.

Credentials and focus

• PT, DPT, licensed physical therapist
• Doctor of Physical Therapy, Creighton University, 2018
• Certified Vestibular/Vertigo Specialist II
• Vertigo, dizziness, and balance disorders
• Gait instability and fall prevention for seniors
• Sports orthopedic injuries and post-surgical joint replacements

What to expect if you see Laura

One-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit.

She will ask what sets it off. Rolling over. Standing up. Looking up at a shelf. Walking through a busy store. Then she tests, tells you in plain language what she found, and walks you through the plan before it starts.

She also sees patients through the concierge mobile clinic, so the work can happen in the home where your balance actually has to hold up.

Steady is a skill, and it can be trained

Vertigo tends to get managed instead of treated. People adapt, then adapt again, and a year later the world is smaller and nobody ever named a cause.

Schedule an appointment with Laura and start with an answer instead.

More on how this is treated: vestibular therapy in Richardson.