PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE ED - , TI - Management of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo AID - 10.1136/dtb.2009.05.0020 DP - 2009 Jun 01 TA - Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin PG - 62--66 VI - 47 IP - 6 4099 - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/47/6/62.short 4100 - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/47/6/62.full SO - Drug Ther Bull2009 Jun 01; 47 AB - In vertigo, people experience an illusion of movement of the environment about them, or of themselves with respect to the environment. Vertigo usually originates in the peripheral nervous system (e.g. due to a disorder of the inner ear) but can, rarely, have a CNS origin (e.g. an intracranial tumour or brainstem lesion). It is commonly due to a peripheral disorder known as ‘benign paroxysmal positional vertigo’ (BPPV).1 Here we discuss BPPV and the management of patients with the condition, including diagnostic and therapeutic manoeuvres.