6-Question Visual Vertigo Scale Online Calculator
The 6-question Visual Vertigo Analogue Scale helps show how much certain places or activities make someone feel dizzy. This tool cannot diagnose the cause of dizziness, but it can help clinicians and care-seekers better understand dizziness symptoms.
Why use the 6-Question Visual Vertigo Scale?
The 6-question Visual Vertigo Scale helps clinicians understand how visually busy places or activities affect a person’s dizziness. Some patients feel worse in places with a lot of movement, patterns, lights, screens, or crowds. This tool can provide useful context beyond vestibular testing alone. It may be helpful when evaluating patients with visually induced dizziness, visual motion sensitivity, vestibular disorders, migraine-related dizziness, persistent dizziness, or difficulty tolerating busy environments. It can also be used to track patient-reported change over time.
Common Clinical Uses
Clinicians may use the 6-question Visual Vertigo Scale to:
Assess dizziness triggered by visually busy environments
Identify places or activities that increase symptoms
Support baseline documentation and care planning
Guide vestibular rehabilitation goals related to visual motion sensitivity
Measure patient-reported change over time
Document functional progress during treatment
Online Visual Vertigo Scale Calculator
For each question, there is a slider that can be moved from 0 to 10. A score of 0 means the activity causes no dizziness. A score of 10 means it causes the most dizziness. If someone does not do an activity, or they are not sure if it would bother them, they can check the box instead. Once all questions have been answered, this tool provides a total score between 0 and 100. A higher score means that the types of situations listed in the questionnaire may have a greater impact on someone’s dizziness.
Indicate the amount of dizziness you experience in the following situations by sliding the marker on the scales below. Check the box if you do not do the activity (it is not applicable) or don’t know if it would bother you.
0 represents no dizziness and 10 represents most dizziness
Looking for a printable PDF version?
Our design team has made improvements to the visual design of the standard questionnaire and we are providing this free of charge. This information is relevant for clinicians looking to improve their understanding of the impact that dizziness has had on your daily activities. Download the printable PDF version of the dizziness questionnaire.