Balance Awareness Week 2025
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September 14-20, 2025
Balance Awareness Week is a global event aimed at raising awareness about balance loss, vertigo, dizziness, and other vestibular conditions.
Why Do We Need Balance Awareness Week?
Most people are not familiar with the term "vestibular," which refers to the inner ear system that communicates with the brain to help us understand our position in space. However, many of us have experienced that disorienting moment when we lose our balance. Whether these symptoms develop gradually or suddenly, dizziness, vertigo, and nausea can make everyday tasks a significant challenge.
What is Balance Awareness Week?
VeDA (Vestibular Disorders Association) launched Balance Awareness Week (BAW) in 1997 to bring attention to invisible balance disorders. Increased awareness helps us understand and support those affected, including family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. While many balance disorders are incurable, quicker and more accurate diagnosis, combined with effective coping strategies, can significantly improve the quality of life for those living with these chronic conditions.
Together, we can support individuals battling dizziness, vertigo, and imbalance as they strive for a life rebalanced.
Why Participate in Balance Awareness Week?
- Raise Awareness: Help make vestibular disorders visible by educating others about these conditions and their impacts.
- Support Research and Resources: Your participation and donations enable VeDA to fund critical research, provide valuable resources, and offer support to those affected.
- Global Impact: By joining our efforts, you become part of a worldwide movement to raise awareness and support for vestibular disorders.
Join VeDA in making vestibular visible and supporting those on their journey to a life rebalanced.
Spread the word in style. Whether it is a Brain Fog sweatshirt, a Dizzy Not Drunk t-shirt, or a Flamingo Power coffee mug, these signature VeDA designs are a great way to start a conversation about vestibular dysfunction.
Raise Funds
You can support the vestibular community by hosting a peer-to-peer fundraiser while sharing your vestibular journey. Click below to register or login to update your profile and see who is contributing to your page.
A star example
Christian Chabbert of the French National Centre for Scientific Research is partnering with VeDA to make Balance Awareness Week a truly global movement. He is championing a global team of medical professionals to lead BAW events and fight for improved vestibular healthcare for everyone.
He is a star example of how one volunteer can make huge waves during Balance Awareness Week.
Partners
Thank you to GDR Vertige, l'Association des Désordres Vestibulaires (ADeV), The American Balance Society, The Association of Migraine Disorders, the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, Cures Within Reach, the Tunisian Vertigo Medical Society, Hodepine Norge Vestibulær Migrene, University Hospital Motol, Bern University Hospital, Landsforeningen for vestibulære sykdommer, Vertigenius, The Vertigo, Tinnitus, and Hypoacusis Association of Romania, the American Academy of Audiology, Hoormij NVVS, Associazione Italiana Otorinolaringoiatri Liberi Professionisti, Asociacion Sindrome de Meniere Espana, Egyptian Audiovisual Medicine Association, The Israeli Center for Dizziness and Balance Disorders, Munich Center for Neurosciences, Kantonsspital Baden, University of Antwerp, Otolith, Vestibular First, Urban Poling, BalanceBelt, UprightVR, Gyrostim, and MED-EL for partnering with VeDA to promote Balance Awareness Week globally.
