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How Metro Manila Chiropractors Help Relieve Vertigo Episodes

Clinicians like doctors, therapists, and Metro Manila chiropractors, are no strangers to helping patients experiencing vertigo symptoms due to varying health concerns. Notably, we are also quite accustomed to seeing patients who confuse their vertigo attacks with dizziness, a collective term for other related symptoms. Are you stuck in the same dilemma? Do you feel tired and frustrated because of your frequent vertigo episodes? Let us help you with our discussion on vertigo episodes and how upper cervical care can help provide sustainable and natural relief.

  

Treat You Right: Understanding your Symptoms

Vertigo and dizziness share a few similarities, making it hard for some to describe how they feel or find an adequate remedy. Thankfully, a quick visit to healthcare professionals like physicians or Metro Manila chiropractors can help patients like you narrow down your patient care option. It will also help you find the root cause of your presenting symptoms and medical history.

Generally, the diagnosis of a vertigo-causing condition starts with a detailed health assessment. Through an in-depth interview, your attending healthcare professionals can trace your medical history, including past surgeries, recent trips to ER, and medications. You might also need to discuss other risk factors such as having family members with vertigo-triggering diseases or having pre-existing health conditions like:

  • Diabetes

  • Meniere’s disease

  • Migraine

  • Heart diseases

  • Hypertension 

  • Neurological and musculoskeletal conditions


Digging Deeper: Going Beyond The Usual Lab Tests 

Besides a patient’s vitals and medical history assessment, healthcare professionals also need to look into vertigo triggers, such as lifestyle choices, diet, and usual activities. Doctors or Metro Manila chiropractors might also consider the mood and stress levels of patients before and after a vertigo episode occurs. To give you an idea of what you should expect, we listed some of the usual physical checks the clinicians do to trace the root cause of vertigo:

Nerve function and damage assessment

Aside from taking basic vital signs and analyzing the blood, doctors also examine the cranial nerves to check for any neurologic disorder contributing to the symptoms.

Ear examination (both its visible and inner parts)

This test helps clinicians to check the body’s sense of equilibrium and auditory function.

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Orthostatic blood pressure check-up

For this specific test, patients need to undergo multiple blood pressure tests to observe any significant changes whenever the body switches to a new position. It also helps doctors check for autonomic dysfunction or dehydration. 

Dix-Hallpike maneuver and head impulse test

These two tests check for abnormal eye movements when you position or tilt the head to a certain degree. 

Electrocochleography

Because vertigo often results from vestibular disorders, some physicians and healthcare practitioners require tests like electrocochleography. This comes in handy in detecting the presence of Meniere’s Disease and Auditory Brainstem Response.


Start Improving Your Vertigo Symptoms

Understandably, it can be overwhelming to know all these types of diagnostic tests. However, the accuracy of your patient care plan and the methods you should use rely on the comprehensiveness of the findings from these tests. The more information you have on your vertigo-causing symptoms, the better shot you have at eliminating your spinning sensations.

Here are some of the usual causes of vertigo attacks diagnosed by doctors and other healthcare professionals:

BPPV

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo – the leading cause of vertigo attacks – shares a strong connection with head trauma. Notably, when the head or neck suffers from a major blow, bits of pieces of the calcium grains in the ear migrate to places where they should not suppose to be. This causes the sensation of vertigo and amplifies the signals sent to the brain whenever you change your head’s position.  

Doctors recommend canalith repositioning techniques like the Epley maneuver for most BPPV cases. These guided exercises help shift the calcium grains from the ear back to the inner area from the semi-mid part of the ear.

Meniere’s Disease

Meniere’s is also a leading cause of spinning sensations. This condition causes a fluid imbalance in the inner ear. Patients often experience relief from Meniere’s symptoms by restricting their salt intake or taking diuretics. Some also opt for surgical procedures such as ESD or endolymphatic sac decompression, which drains this endolymph sac of the ear without compromising hearing function. 

Cervical Subluxation

Not many people know that they have misaligned upper neck bones. Unfortunately, most of these individuals suffer from debilitating problems like vertigo episodes. The compromised neck structure puts pressure on the brainstem – the nervous system’s key connection to various body parts. The bones also obstruct fluid drainage, increasing fluid retention inside your inner ears.


Metro Manila Chiropractors Employ Upper Cervical Chiropractic for Vertigo

Seeking relief from vertigo can be exhausting and costly, not to mention frustrating and mentally taxing. Thankfully, upper cervical chiropractic provides a silver lining to patients. This non-invasive, long-lasting, not to mention cost-effective remedy for vertigo-causing problems has helped hundreds of patients in Metro Manila. So, it may be worth checking it out and seeing if it will help you relieve your symptoms.  

Upon finding misalignment in the upper cervical area, Metro Manila chiropractors like ours can provide you with gentle and well-calculated neck adjustments. Guided by the results of the initial assessment and imaging scans of the neck, our chiropractic doctor can help you fix your spinal misalignment. 

For more information about our natural option for vertigo relief, visit the N8 Upper Cervical Chiropractic. You may book your visit in advance or call us at +63285536218 or +639175710212 for your inquiries.


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