Vertigo, Headaches & Nausea - Their MRI was normal ... but THEY DIDN'T LOOK AT THE NECK.
Channel: Dr Jeffrey Hannah
Date: 2023-03-07

Dr Jeffrey Hannah 
Blair Upper Cervical Chiropractor @ Clear Chiropractic
Spokane, Washington

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This video may offer insight and hope for people who also have a wide array of health problems, whose MRIs come back as saying "everything is normal" when, in fact, nothing is normal about them. 

This is the case of a young person who was having many bizarre neurological symptoms for many years: vertigo, dizziness, headaches, a feeling like their ear is always full, nystagmus, nausea, chest pain, suboccipital numbness and tingling,  and also weakness in both arms and legs.

This person has been to numerous ENTs and neurologists and has also had an extensive series of MRI scans, including the ones that I'm showing here. 

As I've spoken about in other videos, much of this stuff comes down to perspective. Medical radiologists are looking for overt signs of pathology (e.g., fractures, tumors, bleeding, etc). They often are not trained to look for the subtle dis-relationships that can affect body function in severe ways. Especially where the upper neck (aka craniocervical junction) is concerned, the orientation of the vertebrae in your upper neck can have a profound and devastating impact on health in so many parts of the body for the simple reason that your upper neck affects your brainstem, which is the master control center for everything in your body.

Back to this person's scans, we were looking at blood flow to-and-from the brain via two vessels located along the front of the C1 vertebra in the neck. We could see a smaller internal carotid artery (ICA), which supplies 60% of all the blood to your brain slightly more to the inside. And we could also see the internal jugular vein (IVJ), which drains blood from your brain when you are in a lying down position.

What we saw was that their right-sided blood vessels were just fine. However, on the left side, we saw that the left C1 transverse process was positioned too far forward, which was constricting the internal jugular vein. This reveals the possibility that this person's combination of symptoms is the consequence of abnormal blood flow in their brain as a direct consequence of a forward misalignment of the C1 vertebra in their neck.

This begs the question, why didn't the radiologist and neurologist comment on this? Well, as you will see, the MRI slices stopped basically on the point of compression, which suggests that they weren't looking for it. Because of my specialty in the relationship of head-neck alignment, of course that junction is the exact place where I'm going to look, which is likely the reason I saw it and they didn't.

In other words, it wasn't hard to spot. I just thought to look there.

My closing point here is that many times, this critical area is overlooked. If this person simply accepted what their MRI report and neurologist said - "That there's nothing wrong with you" - we wouldn't have dug just that little bit further to find the likely source of their ailment and thus be able to offer a different approach to be able to help them.

So, I hope that this video may give hope if you find yourself experiencing similar problems of vertigo, dizziness, headaches, nausea, etc. even if your MRIs say that everything is normal and even if you have been to see a chiropractor before, what we offer as specialists in upper cervical chiropractic care is a different approach to health and wellbeing.

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The Blair technique is a special division of general chiropractic that focuses on the alignment, motion and stability of the atlas vertebra because of its unique relationship with your nervous system, which controls every function in your body. Unlike general spinal manipulation, there is no twisting, cracking or stretching.

The Blair technique is a gentle and precise approach that utilizes a series of physical, neurological and diagnostic tests in order to provide the highest level of personalized healthcare.

When your atlas is aligned, your body has the potential to be healthy. However, when it is misalignment, your brain and body (simply put) are not able to work as efficiently as they otherwise would, and the inevitable consequence is where problems start to occur.

The big idea of the Blair technique is that by restoring the normal alignment, motion and stability at the junction between your head and neck, your own nervous system and its innate mechanisms are free and able to do what your body is designed to do: heal itself. And when that force is able to flow freely through your body from above-down, inside-out, anything it possible.

Call us to schedule an appointment at 509-315-8166.

Dr Jeffrey Hannah
Blair Upper Cervical Chiropractor @ Clear Chiropractic 
Spokane, Washington