In this video, I'm going to show you how to stop vertigo in
30 seconds. Stay tuned.
Hey, everyone. Dr. Rowe coming to you from SpineCare in
St. Joseph, Michigan. As somebody that has personally
dealt with this before, I want to show you exercises that I've
used to give both quick and long-lasting relief for BPPV or
benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. If you're unfamiliar
with BPPV, it's a type of vertigo that is commonly seen
with quick movements of the head especially while turning
the head just like this. A common cause is because of an
inner ear problem where crystals within that ear canal
become dislodge and affect nearby balance receptors. When
this happens, it causes a lot of issues that are not fun
including sensations of being unsteady or unbalanced to more
severe conditions like spinning, nausea, and extreme
motion sickness. So, to help fix this, I'm going to show
easy exercises. Each one of these exercises work just a
little bit differently. So, to get the best results, go
through them all and use what gives the most relief. As a
bonus, all of the exercises can be done at home require no
special equipment and you may find give quick vertigo relief
even within 30 seconds. So, with that being said, let's get
started. So, let's start by answering the most important
question. What ear, what side is causing my vertigo? A really
easy way to tell is to lie flat on your back in bed and just
simply roll over to one side. Whatever side that you roll
over that causes more spinning, nausea, vertigo tends to be the
side that you're having an inner ear issue but if you're
unsure, my best advice is to consult with your local doctor.
Also, if you're unsure if you even have BPPV, I would get it
checked out. When in doubt, always get it checked out.
Another note about these exercises through personal
experience, I can tell you that it is very common that you will
get an increase of vertigo including nausea and sickness
while doing these exercises. So, if that's the case, have a
bucket or trash can nearby just in case but you should notice
through repetitions that you get more relief and hopefully
that won't be the case. This is the half somersault or the
Foster maneuver and this one has helped me out quite a bit
in the past with vertigo. It's my go-to exercise. I'm going to
go through different positions and movements. Each movement
you want to hold until all spinning stops including any
nice stagmas that motion with your eyes plus 20 to 30 seconds
after. So, the first position, we're going to be on our knees
and we're going to look upward towards the ceiling as much as
we can. The next position, we're going to put our hands in
front of us just like this and then do a quick somersault
forward bringing our head towards the floor. Let's also
tuck our chin towards our chest. The position after this
is maintaining that chin tuck but turning our head 45 degrees
towards the affected side. So, I'm showing it on my left side.
An easy way to get into position, just look towards
that side's elbow or armpit and then from there, we're going to
maintain this chin tuck and also looking 45° over but we're
going to lift our head up like this very quickly. It's very
important to do these movements quickly because that will help
reset the crystals. From there, we're going to come upright
like this, maintaining that chin tuck and looking 45
degrees towards the affected side and then the final
position is just taking our neck back into a neutral
position just like this but again go through all of those
positions hold them until all spinning stops plus 20 to 30
seconds with my personal experience with this exercise
I've had to do it pretty much throughout the day sometimes
every 10 to 15 minutes and then what I'll notice is is that it
helps build over time where I only have to do it maybe once
an hour every couple hours to only a couple times a day to a
couple times a week so it builds upon itself and keep
working at it This is the Brandt-Daroff maneuver or what I
like to call the couch method because it's perfectly done at
the edge of a couch or a bed. We're going to start off lying
on one side. Doesn't matter which side because we're going
to do it on both. I'm going to start on my left. So, I'm just
going to keep my body in a nice straight line and then bring my
shoulder down like this and let's swing our legs so they're
resting on that couch or the bed. From here, I'm going to
turn my head 45 degrees to look towards the other side
shoulder. So, in this case, I'm turning to look over my right
shoulder. An easy way to get in the right position, let's say
that looking straight ahead is zero and if we were to turn all
the way over to look towards our shoulder, that would be
roughly 90 degrees. So, we just need to meet right in the
middle. So, our nose is slightly pointing upward
towards the ceiling. In my personal experience, this
exercise can quickly worsen vertigo symptoms including
nausea and spinning. So, if that's the case with you, do
not be discouraged because through repetitions you'll
probably notice that this exercise really will help
lessen those symptoms if not completely get rid of them you
want to hold this one for 30 seconds, but if you have really
bad symptoms do the best you can and through repetitions
build into it from there we're going to come back up like this
and just look straight ahead you want to again hold this one
for 30 seconds or until all vertigo symptoms go away and
then we're just going to repeat it on the other side so to come
down on my right side and then I'm just going to look 45°
towards my left shoulder. You want to do this one for five
repetitions on both sides and again, hopefully with each
repetition, what you're going to notice is those symptoms
become less and less and hopefully just go away
completely. Again, in my personal experience, I have the
best results doing this exercise a couple times
throughout the day. This is the Epley maneuver which is
arguably the most pop and widely used exercise for
treating BPPV. This one is best done in bed. Just make sure to
grab a pillow to place underneath your shoulder
blades. So a couple notes about the before we begin. With this
exercise, you want to do quick movements. It makes it more
likely that you'll reset any loose crystals in your ears
giving relief. Next, we're going to go over a couple
different positions. Each position you want to hold until
all spinning stops plus an additional 20 to 30 seconds.
So, let's start off by positioning our pillow where
it's going to rest right over our shoulder blades but our
head can come back just like this. What you want to do is
come back up like this and you're going to turn your head
45° quickly towards the affected side. In this case
would be my left side. If you're unsure what 45° looks
like, if you were to turn your head all the way over to look
towards your shoulder, that would be roughly 90 degrees.
So, back off about way. You're going to hold this position and
now quickly come down like this bringing your head down to rest
on the bed. Our next position is very similar. We're just
going to quickly turn to look over the other side shoulder.
So in this case, I'm going towards my right. The position
after this, we're going to maintain this 45° turn but
we're going to quickly roll over on this other side
shoulder just like this. So, my chin and my head are slightly
pointed down towards the floor. From here, we're going to
quickly come up like this and rest right at the edge of the
bed, have very good upright posture, and just look straight
ahead. You want to hold this position until all symptoms
including spinning and nausea have stopped and for good
measure, I would recommend holding this for an additional
60 seconds, just allow the ears to reset. The Epley you can do
a couple times a day and it is really good at giving quick
BPPV relief. This is the BBQ roll. I can't say it's
overly tasty but it is really convenient because we can do
this one right in bed. So, just grab a pillow for this. I'm
going to go through different positions. Each position we
want to hold until all spinning goes away plus an additional 20
to 30 seconds. So, let's start off by just getting into
position. I'm going to lie flat on my back and have my neck
supported by the pillow. The first position, we're going to
roll over on the affected side so in this case would be my
left side again my neck is going to be nice and straight
supported on this pillow nose pointed straight ahead the next
position is just lying flat on our back just like this the
next position after this is rolling over towards the other
side the next position we're then going to do our roll so
let's roll down I should say roll over like this so our head
is pointed down you can support your upper body weight on your
forearms they're kind of in a B position I put my hands
together and then you your chin towards your chest. The final
position after this is then just rolling back onto the
affected side and then holding this position. Afterwards, just
come back up like this and see how you feel. You just kind of
want to look straight ahead and sit here until all symptoms go
away for an additional 20 to 30 seconds. In my personal
experience with the barbecue roll, I've had to do it a
couple times before I really notice some really good
results. So, build into a and this one is perfect to do a
couple times throughout the day maybe first thing in the
morning when you wake up and right before you go to bed. If
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