Dizziness
ü Why it is so elusive
ü Why most approaches fail.
ü What makes my practice different… and effective
ü What we do that works so well
Dizziness … vertigo … spinning …
Children play at it… Alfred Hitchcock made a movie of it… a “dizzy” person has a flighty personality… Remember “Dizzy” Dean of baseball?
But it is neither funny nor entertaining when it is real.
Sometimes the room swirls around you. Sometimes you spin inside the room.
Both are bad. Both mean you have a neurological problem.
Drugs can treat it. At least, they can reduce the symptoms. They do not cure it.
Most people just lie down and wait for it to pass. This solves nothing beyond the moment.
The problem usually lies in the lower part of your brain, in a section called the cerebellum.
The cerebellum is the part of your brain that coordinates movement. When you point your finger, for example, you make the conscious decision to point with the front of your brain. You aim with the back part, in the cerebellum. Without the cerebellum you would point in any old direction, with no control.
By the way, if you have heard that the back or lower part of your brain is lower function, re-think that. Lower means its geographical location, not its importance.
Of course, your brain – all of it – is a well-organized mass of nerve cells. Nerve cells are not round like most cells. They are more shaped like a short rope. When nerve cells work, they are said to “fire”. An electrical signal zips through the nerve from one end to the other, and passes like a spark to the next nerve, where the same process happens again and again and again one nerve cell to the next to the signal’s destination, where the massage is delivered and something happens.
Nerves in your body are arranged like a wire telephone network. Nerves in your brain are arranged more like a computer board.
It is pretty common these days for people to have a cerebellum that is not firing properly. This is not a brain injury or mental illness. It is a neurological issue that in most cases can be corrected with special neurological exercises.
Most exercises need to be done here in our office, at least at first. They involve getting a movement done just right and with some intensity. The idea is to highly stimulate the involved brain cells, which helps to re-set them. Exercises, of course, are specific to your needs. There are no books to just pick something out and do them. Such would be at least ineffective and at worst damaging if the exercise is done wrong, over-done or stimulates the wrong area.
Our approach is to combine specific, focused chiropractic adjustments with neurological exercises both in-office and at home, thus correcting two neurological issues at the same time. We restore proper nerve firing at your very core – your brain – while simultaneously clearing out nerve irritation (and pain-generating signals) in your spine.
About those adjustments – you may have heard about (or experienced) old-fashioned rack-‘em-crack-‘em adjustments in the past. Maybe they helped, maybe they didn’t. Maybe you got worse. Bear this in mind: … That approach is obsolete. Has been for 25+ years. Today’s work is highly refined, highly specific, and will focus on clearing problems with your nerve system, not “re-aligning” bones. We will adjust only one side, not roll this way and roll that way to “get ‘em all”. The underlying reason is to stimulate the weak side of your cerebellum and restore neural balance. That is where real healing takes place.
To make care smoother and more comfortable, and to make sure you progress as fast as possible, we use supporting therapies such as massage, heat, electrical stimulation, and others. While no more than temporary relief if used alone, these therapies combine nicely with adjustments and nerve exercises to create a more effective treatment regimen.
It’s not overnight. You didn’t get his way quickly, but little by little. You can’t just snap back. And, set-backs do happen, but are not defeating unless you quit. After all, in the process of getting worse, didn’t you have some good or better days along the way? Likewise, you’ll have bad or worse days as you get better. And maybe worse will happen first. It is part of the process, so hang in there. Look at the overall trend. If today is bad, but the last few days are better than last month, we are making progress.
By thinking “outside the box”… or in this case, “inside the skull” …….. make that inside the BRAIN …….. we get results we could not get before incorporating this 21st Century work into our practice.
That is what we do, and why The Healthy Place Optimum Health is different from other chiropractic offices. In fact, different from just about any other health care office, period.