instances of sub luxation and how important it is to have your spinal cord and linemen but i asked doc to talk today and address the problem of vertigo and that's our topic today because it impacts people so often and people it's a very frightening situation when that occurs because it occurs suddenly out of nowhere and you think you're dying basically because you're you become unable to function so doc tell us what vertical what is vertigo well instance where you could get dizzy all of a sudden from a sudden head movement from just turning your head back to driving the car but it usually the onset is out of nowhere i can just come upon waking in your eyes in a certain position but it's a feeling of dizziness a feeling of them balanced and it usually is cause i mean it's an inner ear problem but it can be the result of head trauma neck trauma concussion there's a migraine vertigo that could be associated with it but almost always there's a nerve involvement and that nerve involvement could be from somebody simple as a bacterial infection absolutely the infection could cause it stress could cause it there's actually tobacco caffeine and there's one other drug that can cause sleep medicine so like you can get a viral infection you can get a bacterial infection a fungal infection and all those infections basically create inflammation that regulation impinges the nerve yes and then suddenly you had this in sation where you become disoriented basically yeah you feel on balance it's it is scary as you said and to not be able to control your balance can creating diety on top of that and then you have symptoms of nazia and vomiting  cause that and so even wax buildup can cause this absolutely wax build up which is why i usually send them to the e m t to get the ear canal checked out first to make sure that's not a problem because that can be easily fixed and this can be a legal can come on it can last for four to five weeks it can last a couple months where it may only last a couple hours everyone is different so you could wake up in the morning and suddenly have this you could be driving your car over all of a sudden and this occurs yes that's when it could be very scary so if it happens one time do you prone to recurrence of this case of this verde no some people yes some people know it can happen and never happen again i mean it's yeah i woke up and i'm like what is happening to me and it was very scary i mean i was lucky i went downstairs i got my adjustment instrument adjusted the upper cervical my neck i went back to bed and when i woke up it was gone so carpark to care for vertigo's is a wonderful treatment and actually a prevention i would think it's what happened i know words to by talk about this all the time were nothing but a tube and were nothing but fluid nerves and muscles exactly and so if so when we come out of alignment things don't flow property including the energy and we get these symptoms so chiropractor care is not only a fix for you go can be a fix for vertical it's also preventive situation that's why you should see your chiropractor on a routine basis yeah i mean the first two vertebrae in your neck affect the inner ear the blood supply to your head so c one c two which are the very first two vertebrae the blood supply to your head actually asked to pass through those vertebrae so even the tiniest movement of those can decrease blood flow to your head so those are usually the vertebrae that are affected and they control the nerve sensations to the ear and if those vertebrae are put back into you can stop the vertigo tonight a serene ing in the ear and there's server go genic vertigo which is definitely can be related to headaches and migraines and t m j so getting those first  hydration some nausea medication and then there are some medications actually treat the very go symptoms doesn't fix the vertigo and then they usually clean out the year and they'll find whacks build up or infection  forth they never suggest a go see your chiropractor of course right but that's one of the things after you stabilize that the onset you should run and see your chiropractor yeah it helped a lot of people over the years and sometimes it's just one or two adjustments so what type of adjustments doc well in my office there are some people that prefer not to be mainly just said so in that case i would use an instrument to adjust them sometimes just ep lee's maneuver which is turning their head to one side or the well but sometimes just the turning of the head can straighten up that problem without even a just and those crystals you mentioned that's a common problem with vertigo that's probably one of the most common most common and so so you lay them back in their head back a bit right their head goes back and then you'll turn it to one side and readjust the crystals now there's usually one you're more affected than the other and you can figure that out but doing that exercise regularly while you're laying in bed if you wake up with vertigo sometimes fixes it so you get symptoms of vertigo you wake up in the morning let's say you're laying there and you go to get up and all of a sudden you get dizzy and lightheaded dizzy or if they're laying there and you turn your eyes from one side to the actually don't even turn your head you just turn your eyes and you suddenly the room starts to spin yes that's what could possible be a sign of vertigo absolutely yeah any unbalance any feelings of dizziness those are usually the first signs of vertigo so there's no pill that's going to get rid of that there's no medicine that i know on the planet that's going to get rid of that so that usually you know a lot of people will start out with the e m t make sure there's not any clogging in the air and then if that doesn't fix it then i would look at your car practical and just  we just got to get traditional medicine to refer someone to make that suggestion because i don't see that yeah some fortunate because when you're suffering with that and you don't have any solution then that hopelessness settles in and the anxiety settles in and then you know it can be very depressing so if i had vertigo and i came to you for office what type what type of adjustments would be with you do well it's going to be an upper cervical adjustment but i will check the whole spine but see one  two which of the first two vertebrae are usually the ones that are involved so you know you could have been in a car accident seven years ago and those could get misaligned and then over a period of time you know that misalignment can cause  a disconnect between the bird of prey and then are going to the ear canal you know there's something called the ball and ball syndrome where our headways roughly was about seven pounds of what would be a bowling ball ways and you can get your head tilted and you don't really notice it i mean you could use a chiropractor notices this on people and i notice that as well you'll see one shoulder up and one shoulder down as a standing and their heads tilted a little bit and that actually impacts vertigo  altered the whole time then those little calcium deposits can get stuck in one position yet so so you have treatments to fix to fix that yeah i mean if you woke up and you instantly had vertigo i would do the ep lee's maneuver which is try to lay your head on the edge of the bed and turn into one side and back to the other side and just keep doing that that will readjust those calcium particles and it could possibly help and then people that are out of tilted your head will always go to the center and straighten you out so i mean it could be from your feet it could be from your knee could be from your hip so we're not always looking at a disease process in iraq you know i mean i know when people get  vertigo the physicians will say well salt you know because it's as a flow develops there are some impact of that i mean you could be dehydrated or you could be hypoglycemic and feel dizzy and fill them in and when a long period of time which a lot of people do from the time they go to sleep until they wake up that's usually seven or eight hours for most people you could become hypoglycemic which would mimic dizziness and very go so diet can impact reduce the impact of vertigo by watching our diet and then keeping ourselves in line and how often do you recommend that we come in and get a line you know after the initial treatment protocol which is usually three times a week for three to four weeks the vertebrae will start to stay in that position because we have ourselves a memory i must write what the problem is is that you know those muscles and ligaments have been home that vertebrae in the wrong position for too long so that if i just adjusted you once you walk out the door and you turn to get in your car that vertebrae will most likely go back into that position that it used to being him because the muscles and ligaments hold it there but after you've been adjusted several times in the muscles and ligaments have readjusted usually once a month is what i recommend and i've had people coming to me once a month for twenty years you know when i when i moved i to my back out and i never had such of their pain in my life i mean you know i know i take no medications and i actually got on a painkiller because i couldn't take it i couldn't take the pain killer because it gave me an instant migraine i mean with within five minutes of taking the painkiller i felt my head was going to explode and i couldn't continue so i took it because i couldn't even sleep and you know for me to get on a medication of any kind i had to i had to be a beer a lot of pain yeah and you know it occurred it occurred late in the evening and i think i saw you the next morning and and we over a period days got adjusted then and everything was fine but the medication created such a feeling in my head migraine that i realize he or she thought i should run to the hospital because  my brain was going to explode that's how bad it was and so i took this medication because of the severe pain i was in and i ended up not even thinking about my back anymore because my head was going to explode and when i saw you and you did your adjustments it took that pain away so we're susceptible to this impact on our spine this from funny movements that we make or doing things we should like i was doing yeah i mean you could go to sleep in one position and wake up  just your sleeping habits can cause certain vertebrae to be misaligned how should we sleep the ideal position is honestly on your back foot and not with you pillows with your head up to far with your head all the way back your spine should be perfectly straight and it should be the same thing when you're laying on your side so you see a lot of people that have their head tucked up in the hole as their head is pushed forward the worst position is on your stomach versus now your head is turned to one side the whole night so not only are you rotating all your vertebrae to one side but you're cutting off blood supply to one side of your head because it's impossible for the blood to go up both sides with your head turned i've always been a side sleeper and always on my left side which is your  sleep on your heart side and i literally had to train myself to sleep on my back yeah me takes twenty one days to change a habit so in the beginning you probably end up flopping back to your usual side but if you have that  mental image of you sleeping on once on in you just keep doing it night after night it will become a habit yeah i find myself moving from side to side every once in a while but that i purposely try to stay on my back the side sleeper years and i recently purchased new mattress and we went with the most firm mattress you can possibly have and i've been sleeping the best i've ever slept so everybody is different but the more firm the more support for the spine the less firm the more the body is going to give and then that can allow the vertebrae to misalign so as america memory matches that for us or not i don't think that so you it feels really good but i don't i can't say it's really good for you i mean there's a little bit of a cushion on top of our firm mattress but it's very minimal we've we used to use a foam and you know after a month or two that fall no longer is holding you like it should it doesn't matter how expensive the front foam is because that's where they really get the you know they say they use different levels of foam but eventually the phone is going to give it's going to give it's going to give and then it's not doing what it's supposed to yeah for years i had one of those air mattresses in the number mattresses and it was awesome he could adjust to how he felt that day when he went to bed but i usually found myself keeping at the firmest that you could pump up his highest level yeah we looked at those when we went in and the salesman really wasn't pushing us to buy it and i thought because it was the most expensive thing in there that that would be something he would do and when i saw that he wasn't and i asked him if he owned one and he said no i've decided to go with the most find the sleep better on a firm mattress i agree now what about pillows that's another question i so water pillows in my office so the water pillow just to the level of your head and you could set that water at whatever level you want to  set it at i've seen to get the most success with those but pillows no matter what your head in your spine the spine should be completely level so if you're using three pillows your heads probably up like this if you use them one pillow your hands probably tilted back too far so i mean you really have to find one so if your side sleeper the head should still be level with the spine so your head should be tilted like this in your spine going like that that over a period of weeks can start to create a curvature in the act that you don't want the curvature in your neck should have a curvature like this so a lot of the cervical pillows allow they had to settle in the middle and a little they're small to the perfect size so i mean you really have to figure that out because i mean there's different size pillows so you know you can get our one big one in a small one that works the water pillow seems to work the basket you can put as much water it as you want dhoni the nice thing about those is and once they're filled up with water that they don't move they'll stay in that position so they get pretty heavy so they're like a water bed but just a just in the pool of yeah i have found those to have the most success what do you think about water beds not good not good at it is useless down and yeah i mean it gives wherever your weight is so if you're heavier person you're definitely going to be in trouble and we are about being in balance and about being in line because as you mentioned we're electricity everywhere to where everything flows and when we start to compress our body in various areas we stop that flow from happening yeah that's electric blankets  interrupt the natural flow in your body because of the magnetic field you know i have to say that i sleep with a legit blanket because i just i have not adjusted to being back in pennsylvania and i'm cold all the time  and i do keep that in the back of my mind but yeah they say can disrupt in a but i don't know you know how much truth is behind it so now we we are affected by magnetic fields we know that yeah i mean they say that about your watch you know a battery watch can also do that s you do you think those in cell phones have impact on very go i would say yes like it's i could honestly say i think that could affect you i try not to hold the phone up to my ear i'll put it on speaker put on speaker and just hold  know i try to use the court as much as possible you know and keep the phone away from my head but you know often i'm doing things and not that cordle grab something and yank the phone right out or yank those cords right out of my my years but you know all this technology has an impact on how our body functions absolutely and again we can't stress enough we are electricity we are energy and we know the earth has a magnetic field and  terry thing in your body and if you keep that flow open the body can basically heal everything so you can't see this properly but i'm sitting here with my legs crossed bad move yeah that's that's about how is it that i have to do so you should be sitting is your  entire time in the nerves are being stretch from that position so and that's why my my foot is going numb right now that's probably why because i've compressed that flow of fluid of blood of electrical energy and  so my my my muscles are telling me hey something's wrong and i'm going on yeah fight told somebody to do something every day it would be to get their feet on earth get themselves grounded and maybe do some meditation while you know  that term grounded is kind of interesting because we know so so i think what it means is get your hair out get your head out of the clouds and get back to earth i think that's what people mean by that yes i could be wrong but in fact we know that the earth gives off negative ions and we walk on the ground in our bare feet we absorb those negative ions yet it's there's an energy that comes from the earth that our body needs yeah and it's actually actually produced in part from lightning strikes to the to the earth and then the magnetic fields that the earth makes and that's in its core producing these negative ions and always to be absorbing negative ions or being a negative and ion donor state a good thing for you when you're an island stealer state you're given your negative ions away that's you know that it's what happens when we when we hug you share these ions in a somebody  there are some people that'll take that them you think there's some people that will give it and some people give it to you but you can get it from the earth walking out like walking on the beach and the water slowing up on to so you're walking on the ground the sand so you have your feet in plan and sign you're getting negative ions from that when there's movement and water generate water generates negative ions moving water but for example assuming fan or driving with a convertible or your windows down or  sunroof open whatever that you put yourself in a donor state in there the wind actually takes moving when takes negative ions from you so so anytime that you can get yourself on the ground in the water you're actually sounds kind of move but scientifically proven absolutely is a lot of research on it and if you were to google it online you'd find now they have the grounding mat grounding pillows there's different things so it has definitely been proven and what's new there one of the things i forgot to mention along with this vertigo is the nasal cranial release technique that i'm doing so someone that has a concussion or has had a head trauma the nasal c release can also relieve the vertigo or migraine headaches or issues that may be affecting your vision so i didn't want to mention that the knees of cornea releases basically the inserting of a finger caught up the nose and inflating it in adjusting the cranial bones so using basically in layman's terms a balloon a very small one that you're inflating and it's putting pressure to realign those small little bones in there yeah i have found that to be very effective for patients that have had severe brain injuries or brain traumas or concussions a lot of athletes with concussions i mean if you've ever hit your head you've misaligned those sutures those su actually move every time we breathe in and out a lot of people think that they're solid solid and they become casa five but they don't so the spinal fluid flows up your brain expands pushes spinal fluid flows back down so that spinal fluid is cut off and in the area those brains it can be add have adverse effect and that's why you get a sinus headache is because you've exceeded the ability of those sutures to expand and they're putting pressure on your brain you get a sinus headache but those bones are in there are very small and very thin and i know when i was in school and we had identify those bones and anatomy and so forth i couldn't believe how thin they are and how little it would take to fracture them there i pined in a lot of people get excellent results with that but that i'm comfortable procedure when i say it hurts but it's the same as flying on an airplane and your ears start to feel that pressure and you blow your nose the feel that there's pressure that to feel but as far as a being painful it is not so that that along with the you know there is a lot in nutritional counseling that i like to you know talk about the patients diet and make sure that they're eating correctly so that's another big thing i like to address is there any particular supplement that would help in this vertigo situation you know that's a good question i can't honestly say that there's been one specific yeah i was reading on the list of things that helps and i saw that was one of the awesome well is dr scott anderson from anderson car practic dr shows come to a conclusion here saying i wouldn't thank you from coming for coming back on in and forming us and educating us on vertigo and it's a critical situation also you know you can listen to me on am twelve fifty the answer every saturday morning from nine am to ten am it's a live call in show r shows called healthy pets healthy people and i'm having a lot of fun with it and we're getting a lot of good guests on there and a lot of good topics and gives you the opportunity to actually talk with us so thank you so much for watching healthy pets