- Hi, I'm 37 weeks pregnant, and I decided
to come to the chiropractor because
I've been experiencing some other issues
that I don't know if were brought out
by the pregnancy, but I have Meniere's disease
and back in July I started getting
extreme vertigo and it's prevented me from driving
and I've been very nauseous and been
throwing up because of it, you know,
the room gets very spinny,
and I've had a lot of fullness in my ear,
and even some ringing in my ear occasionally,
and I also have TMJ in my right jaw,
and it's my right ear that seems to be
the issue with the fullness.
So I'm here for that reason, and also to,
I think help with the labor part,
I'm hoping that it's a little bit smoother,
and that the baby's in a good position, to help with that.
- Right there.
Right there.
So the first thing we're gonna do,
is set up our patient, and where we see,
there's a lot of swelling, right over here,
a considerable amount, and even though,
seems like a little tightness,
tight over here, tight over here,
tight on the left side, not so tight
on the right side over here.
So we're gonna take a look,
and even though you complain about pain right here,
I want to take a look, see what's going on.
So, let's check your foundation first.
Little tight on the left.
So, you can move a little right,
feel that difference there?
- [Woman] Mmm hmm.
- [Chiropractor] Tight, loose.
Left hip,
a little stuck on the right.
Going backwards no problems.
Sorry, stuck to the left, left hip.
Pushing forward, the right hip
moves forward without a problem,
moves backwards without a problem, so we're gonna take
a closer look, see what's going on over here.
- [Woman] Okay.
- Because we don't have x-rays, okay,
so we have different ways of assessing,
to determine if there's any
structural abnormality in the pelvis.
So, go ahead, march in place,
what I want you to do is knee up
to this waist level, if you can.
Good, put it down.
Okay, that moves fine.
Okay, march, see that's stuck.
Put it down.
Okay, so guys, what we're looking at right now,
is if it's normal, the thumbs should
move downward, without a problem.
Abnormal, it won't move as much.
Now, for the sacrum over here,
it should move inwards, okay.
Abnormal, it'll be stuck in place.
So we see over here, demonstrate,
once again, right foot, goes up, okay.
Once more again, the thumb goes down without a problem.
Now, left, okay go ahead, once more.
So the left thumb, no problem.
So the sacrum and the ilium, on her right hip,
not a problem on that side.
Now we're gonna do this side,
so go ahead and raise this one up.
So her left hip, without a problem.
Now go ahead, right leg.
See, it doesn't move as much.
Go ahead, drop it down, once more.
Okay.
Left hip, right hip.
Doesn't budge, so this is where the problem is,
and that's what we need to correct on her, okay.
So the next step, what we do, is the
Webster Protocol, we're gonna check
the foundation itself, so compare the feet.
Raise it up, no, let me do it.
So this one, on the left side,
you feel much more tighter, compared to the right one?
- [Woman] Yes.
- So that helps confirm, that yes,
got a left sacral problem, that's what
we need to correct on her.
First thing that we're gonna do,
we're gonna pump this up, okay.
And we're not gonna do a very big
thrust on this fellow over here.
Cause again, you're releasing that
hormone called relaxin, and what that's gonna do
is it's gonna relax your pelvis over here.
So what we're gonna do is just
pump it up, just give a little nudge,
see if that's enough to do it, if not
we'll give a little thrust, right in there,
just to get this stretch properly corrected,
proper alignment, make it a much more easier birth.
Now, let's see.
How is it now?
- [Woman] Better.
- Better, right?
- [Woman] Yeah.
- Meniere's disease is a multifactorial problem.
So, let's start off with the first component: the inner ear.
Now, with the inner ear, there's two components of it.
One is dealing with the oratory part,
so if the nerve is not functioning as proper
and well as it should, that's what's giving off
that tinnitus, or that ringing sensation in your ears.
Other component, that deals with your sense of balance.
The vestibular part, so if that nerve component
is not functioning as well as it should,
that's what's give you that little
dizziness sensation, the vertigo component.
Now, other component that deals with
Meniere's disease is also fluid in the ears.
Now that's a different nerve.
That deals with the cranial nerve number five.
Now, cranial nerve number five deals with a lot of stuff,
but in your guy's situation, it also enervates
the soft palette of the mouth,
meaning the very top part, where your tongue is.
I'm sorry, the roof of your mouth,
that's the soft palette,
the nerve's supposed to enervate that.
Now, we have a drainage tube,
for the inner ear, that's supposed to
drain out and go through your mouth.
You can tell cause, when you take a look
in the mirror, you see it right in the back,
if you lift up, right in your mouth,
and see, there's a small little hole here,
small little hole here, that's a Eustachian Tube.
Now, once again, if the cranial nerve number five,
if that's not functioning as well as it should,
and the soft palette is not working right,
it can cause it to collapse, resulting in
one or both the Eustachian Tubes to be pinched off,
not allowing the fluid to be drained out of the inner ear.
So, that gives you that fluid in the ear sensation.
So, now here's the deal, okay,
what we find to resolve
and help in Meniere's disease,
first cervical, second, third and the fifth cervical.
So, we're going to do a structural test,
to determine which of these fellows is
causing the problem, and we correct that.
Feel that tendon right there?
- [Woman] Yes.
- That's, feels like it's your third.
It's your third cervical, okay.
I can tilt your head, sorry
rotate your head, over to the left.
Is that difference right there?
- [Woman] Mmm hmm.
- It's a little stuck on the right side.
- [Woman] Yes.
- I can tilt your head to the left, without a problem.
Feel that difference right there?
Stuck on the right side.
- [Woman] Yes.
- So the third cervical, that's what we're identifying.
So this one over here, that's what we need to fix on.
Last, right shoulder, there we go, right.
It's better, feel that difference now.
- Yes
- You can really tilt your head now, right?
Not all the way,
feel that difference now,
your third cervical. - Yes
- You can tilt it more.
There's still some residual fixation in there,
but it's not perfect, but you know what,
for the first time, especially without xrays,
I wanna take this as conservative as possible,
that's all we're gonna do for that area right there.
This is not gonna be an on and off switch,
that's why I mention it though,
somewhere usual between two to six visits,
is when resolution happens, typical.
- So I have been experiencing vertigo
the last two months, the last episode though
that I had was September 2nd, going into the 3rd,
with a lot of like fullness in my ear,
and just very off balance for about a day and a half,
and I have not experienced that at all,
since I've come here, so I'm very hopeful,
that this is going to help a lot of people.
- All right, thank you very much.