Vertigo Relief

hey Everybody, it’s doctor andrew here with Optimal Chiropractic. Today I wanna talk to you about vertigo, something that’s been becoming more and more common in our office. I’m not sure if there’s elements going on outside that are causing these issues, or it just happens to be a,

just a random occurrence. But I wanna explain it to you so we have a video so you can basically understand what’s going on in your body to be causing this.

Vertigo itself is, it’s not fun. People call it the bed spins or just, it’s just extreme dizziness. So when you’re trying to go about your day or do different things, you’re feeling extremely dizzy and even nauseous at times because of the dizziness. What’s really happening here though, is I have a little diagram that I explain too, but in your inner ear, you actually have these, we call them semi-circular canals.

You can kinda see on this bottom picture here, but they’re these little canals that have. This fluid in there with these crystals. So when you basically move your head or your body in certain ways, this fluid starts to flow through these these canals. And then you start to, it basically tells you where you’re at in space.

And that’s where we get our equilibrium to feel like where we know we’re at. What happens is a lot of people, and I think the reason it happens different. Differently for different reasons, but a lot of times things get like viruses happen, bacteria or ear infections, things like that. Something happens to that inner ear area and that’s where this is all occurring.

And that will then eventually cause the thickness of that fluid in those canals to start to thicken up and then it doesn’t wanna move as well. Those crystals can get bogged down as well too. So when you try to go, let’s say if something has really bad vertigo, go from a laying down to a seated position.

It really kicks in because that fluid is not moving the way it should. So then they end up getting, people can fall. It can get really bad. I don’t wish vertigo on my worst enemies. It’s not, it is not a fun one. Luckily in our office though, we’ve been seeing great results with it. How we, what we do to help is basically we adjust different areas of your neck.

So when we adjust the upper cervical part of your neck, those nerves run right to the. These are called your eustachian tubes. So our ears are supposed to drain fluid. A lot of times what happens when we get those ear infections or bacteria, things like that happen, we adjust, that relieves the pressure of the nerve, the upper cervical spine.

Those nerves then run to those eustachian tubes because those muscles around it constrict around there and then that fluid can start to build up and that’s where it can cause ear infections and things like that. So what we do is as we adjust that upper cervical spine,

we can relieve that nerve pressure.

And then as we do that, then those muscles around the eustachian tube start to release and then fluid can start to flow from the ear again. We get really good results with doing the chiropractic adjustments, doing that. But we also get great results with doing our decompression therapy. ’cause that’s gonna relieve the pressure on to upper cervical spine as well too.

So a lot of things happening 📍 there then too. And then we can actually go straight directly to the ear and we can actually help work the . The cartilage of the air. But then there’s also these little things called the ossicles of the middle ear. Now when we adjust the ear and we can help change pressures with our hands as well too, that can help get pressure changes going in there and help loosen things up and get the fluid flowing more as well too.

So we have different things that we can do to really help you out. This vertigo thing, like I said, is not a fun thing, so if you know anyone that’s dealing with any of that please send them our way. We’ve been gaining great results with this and I think we can definitely help you.