Cascade Dizziness and Balance PT

Julie Grove could not fix my dizziness so made a medical record that I must have anxiety… Ugh… I hate when medical professionals figure if they can’t solve the problem it must be a mental disorder!!! Turned out I had a CSF leak, I wrote to tell her about it and she never responded. She should look up CSF leak and read papers by Dr Wouter Schievink, or Dr Mokri. I guess she didn’t want to know she was wrong. She also missed that I have Ehlers Danlos hyper mobility type… The Beighton scale should be a standard test for PTs, especially if they specialize in dizziness. I have been assessed by 5 medical professionals and score 7 to 8 of possible 9 each time and DX confirmed by geneticist. So not like it is hard to figure out with me.
Anyway, I would not recommend Julie unless you have something simple like BPPV.

I’ve seen Julie twice for BPPV. I’m in the medical profession and am very picky about who I see. I thought her initial assessment was outstanding. She’s thorough and competent and gentle and explains everything that she’s about to do before she does it. I’m so glad I found her as not very many people know how to treat BPPV. I highly recommend her.

Julie Grove is an outstanding therapist! I suffer from infrequent episodes of vertigo, and if you have ever experienced these symptoms you know how debilitating it can be. The world is spinning around you and feelings of extreme imbalance, dizziness, nausea, and sometimes headaches come flooding in. The symptoms show up when rolling over in bed, standing up from sitting, and any changes of head position. When I was in a flare up, I had a friend shuttle me over to Cascade Dizziness and Balance (because it is unsafe to drive myself) and have Julie work her magic to relieve my symptoms.
Julie is a Vestibular specialist, so she knows how to do the proper treatment of vertigo. If you have ever experienced treatment for vertigo, you know that the treatment is temporarily very uncomfortable (like a quick increase in your symptoms). This is the nature of the beast and there is just no getting around it, so buckle up. But I must say, if you can tough it out for a few seconds, the result is a significant improvement in symptoms. Julie has helped me identify possible triggers that will effect the frequency and intensity of my episodes and I have not experienced an episode in about a year.
I recommend her to anyone who is suffering from vertigo or other vestibular disorders.

I have never been to the PT office that is more useless than this. Lisa offers her «philosophy», but not any treatment — be aware! She spent almost an hour on trivial information you can find everywhere online about exercises, and she charges $ 180 for it! I came to the office with severe back pain, I left office with the same pain plus a headache. What a disappointment.
She also got her own name on the insurance network but not the company name! So 7 months later you get the bill from Cascade Dizziness that your insurance refuses to pay, because this company is out of their network. You pay for nothing. Lucky me, I did not go there every week as she suggested, but got the message right away, otherwise, to my back pain and headache would add an empty packet.
Save yourself time and aggravation. Go somewhere else, there are a lot of decent practitioners and doctors that really help. Of course, she is «pleasant» per previous review, that’s why I gave her one star, not zero, but the review should write people that received her service.

I’ve been referring patients with dizziness to Julie Grove for over ten years. As an audiologist who evaluates dizzy patients and determines if vestibular physical therapy is indicated, it is my job to find the very best professionals for my patients. Julie has not only earned the highest level of Herdman certification, she only sees dizzy patients and does not divide her attention to other physical therapy concerns. It is my judgment that she is the most knowledgeable vestibular therapist I have ever known and her outcomes with the most challenging cases are stellar. She has a warm, compassionate bedside manner with her patients and she is a patient and careful listener. She was recently introduced at a meeting by a well-​known Seattle ear surgeon as «the best vestibular therapist in Seattle» and I agree with him. I would recommend that if your physician is affiliated with a medical group and wants you to see that medical group’s PT, go to Julie Grove instead. She really is this good!
~Carol A. Killingsworth, Au. D, Northwest Audiology & Balance Services.