Upper Cervical Chiropractic Meniere's Disease - Dr Ray Drury
Channel: The Upper Cervical Spine Center
Date: 25/01/2019

Hi, I'm Dr. Ray Drury with the Upper Cervical Spine Center, and over the last 25 years in practice, I'm going to say we've had 400, 500 Meniere's patients. Meniere's is kind of a mystery to the medical profession because they look at the ear, which is where the symptoms are, right? And they don't see a problem in the ear, so they have a really hard time trying to figure out, well why do we have all these inner ear problems? The triad which makes up Meniere's disease, vertigo, dizziness, ringing in the ears, and a loss of or diminished hearing, right? All three of those, combined together, give you the Meniere's disease, which is basically some guy, Dr. Meniere, had the condition actually, founded it, and put his name on it.
 If there is nothing wrong with the ear, then somewhere, the message between the ear and the brains got to be getting distorted, changed, altered, so that the brain is hearing something other than what the normal ear is transmitting to it? So, your ear is like a ... It does two things, right? It sends hearing signals to the brain. That's how you hear. And then it also tells the brain where it is in space. The fluid in there, okay? The message tells the brain where it is in space.  You've got your own leveling system to make sure the head's always level. It's actually the same reflex that causes seasickness. That's why if you have Meniere's bad enough, you have drop attacks, you're dizziness gets so bad you throw up because it's like instant seasickness, because what happens is your eyes are telling the brain one thing, and then the ear tells the brain something else. It's the same reflex as seasickness.
 So, on seasickness, you're looking out on a flat horizon, so the eyes are telling the brain you're still, but then your ears feel you going up and down. So, they send the sensation of the brain you're moving. The brain gets confused. That's what creates the dizziness, the nausea, sometimes drop attacks and vomiting.
 So, what's happening is the ear is perfectly normal. It sends a message ... Let's start with hearing that is okay, I'm hearing everything clearly. There's no ringing in the ears. No tinnitus. I hear everything normally. It goes to the brain, and the brain gets the normal hearing. What about balance. Balance is okay. Our head's level. We're standing still. The ear sends those messages to the brain, and the brain gets it and everything's normal. But, if the message is altered, that's when we get the symptoms of Meniere's.
 Now, how could the message be altered? Well, there's only one place the message can be altered, so let's start here. There are no nerves that come off the brain. Okay? The nerves that control your vision, your hearing, your taste, your smell, the muscles in the face, your eyes opening, closing. Those are all come from 12 cranial nerves that come off down here. They come off the brain stem, go back up into the skull, and then they go to the eyes, and the ears, and your taste buds, et cetera.  
 If you have the symptoms of Meniere's, the triad of symptoms we talked about, find an upper cervical doctor near you. What do you have to lose? Right? Let them check you to see if maybe there's something at the top of your neck that could be creating your Meniere's. If so, I'm sure they'll explain to you what they need to do to fix it. If you live in the Charlotte area, that includes South Carolina, Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Belmont, Gastonia, Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson we're the upper cervical doctor for you. Call our office at 704-588-5560. Ask for Cynthia or Susanna. We never charge for the initial consultation to sit down with the doctor to find out exactly what's going on. 
 If we find you have an upper cervical problem, we'll tell you. Then we'll explain to you what we need to do to try to correct it. If you do not have an upper cervical problem, hey, we ruled that out, and you lost nothing. So, give our office a call. Let's see what we can do. Let's see if we can get your life back, get these upper bones correctly positioned, get the communication from your ear to your brain bounced, normal, so that then you start to live a normal life again. 
 I hope this video helps you. Please share. I'll look forward to meeting you someday.