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David Christine, Certified CST

Craniosacral Therapy for Dizziness and Vertigo

Welcome to UndizzyMe.com.  I hope you find the information on this website to be the most advanced and comprehensive explanation of what causes vestibular (inner ear) vertigo and what to do about it anywhere in print or online.

It is based on more than 30 years of clinical experience working with vertigo patients and an extensive study of the medical literature.  I have, in fact, read more than 4000 medical journal articles, most of which say exactly the same thing, and I have found, as many vertigo patients will attest, that the medical profession doesn’t have a clue, neither do they seem to care.

I present this to you free of charge with no gimmicks, no free gifts to entice you to sign up for a newsletter or get on a mailing list, and, nothing to buy.  Of course, if you are in the Pocono area I invite you to contact me by phone or email for a free consultation and I will give you a pretty good idea if craniosacral therapy will work for you and where to go if you need another type of treatment.

If you are not in the immediate area, whether you are a therapist or someone who suffers from vertigo, please spend some time on the site.  You will gain a wealth of information that you can pass on and hopefully help to bring the scourge of vertigo to an end. Thank you so much for visiting my site, I sincerely hope you find the information you need.

craniosacral therapy

Craniosacral Therapy is a hands-on treatment that ends vertigo by gently adjusting restrictions and abnormal movements of the cranial (skull) bones that house the balance organs.

Unfortunately, medical diagnoses are often vague and confusing and patients often get diagnoses and treatments all over the lot with no results.  Alternative therapies such as homeopathic remedies.  Chinese herbs, acupuncture, physical therapy, and others don’t seem to work either.  Craniosacral therapy cuts through all the confusion by locating specific structural abnormalities in the skull that can be easily corrected with gentle touch.

ear vestibular system

There are two main types of non-life-threatening vertigo that can be easily resolved with the right diagnosis and treatment.  Both involve dysfunction of the vestibular system of the inner ear which contains the balance organs for both linear (forward-backward, left-right movement) and rotational movement.  But before you can determine if craniosacral therapy will help you, it is critical to know what kind of vertigo you have.

Craniosacral Vertigo Treatment

craniosacral vertigo therapy

Vertigo involves a sense of motion of either your body or the environment moving when no motion is present.  If your vertigo is diagnosed as an inner ear problem it is called vestibular vertigo.
If your vertigo is episodic, coming and going for no particular reason, lasting several minutes to hours or even days and if medical tests have determined an inner ear dysfunction, then, you likely have a craniosacral problem which can be determined in a matter of seconds by a qualified craniosacral therapist.
Treatments generally last an hour and you receive them fully clothed.  Complete relief generally occurs in 3 or 4 sessions, sometimes in only one.  Occasionally, a few more sessions are needed.  Treatment is never long term and most people receive significant relief in the first session.

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)

Signs of BPPV: If your symptoms are mainly positional, such as in getting out of bed in the morning, or looking up at a high shelf.  If spinning lasts only 30 to 60 seconds, with perhaps some feeling of queasiness or discomfort for sometime after the spinning stops.  Then you likely have Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, or BPPV.
This is a non-life-threatening form of vertigo that, despite the imposing sounding name, can be easily cured.  It just takes simple re-positioning exercises, such as the Epley Maneuver, which most people can do at home.
If you think you have BPPV, see the section on EAR CRYSTALS.  Craniosacral therapy will not work with BPPV.  Likewise, re-positioning maneuvers will be useless for vertigo caused by misalignment of the cranial bones.  This website will help you decide which therapy is best for you.

Craniosacral Problems

Chronic vertigo lasting several minutes or longer is likely a craniosacral problem.  If you have seen a doctor and there is no underlying cause, such as a stroke, tumor, cardiac problem, MS, etc., and, you are not getting complete relief from medical treatment, then spend some time studying this site.  Craniosacral therapy is likely the only treatment that will work for you.
There are many diagnostic labels for different types of vertigo, however, the differences are not always clear and the exact causes are often unknown. Vertigo patents often receive multiple diagnoses and treatments with no results. From a craniosacral point of view the diagnosis does not much matter as long as the vertigo has been identified as a non-threatening vestibular (inner ear) problem and the temporal bones are moving out of sync. Here are some of the diagnoses which may in fact be craniosacral problems: vertigo, vestibular neuritis, labyrinthitis, Meniere’s disease, vestibular migraine, benign recurrent vertigo…and others.
Craniosacral therapy is an extremely gentle, non-invasive treatment.  It not only frees and balances the cranial bones, it also calms and tones the entire central nervous system.  This has positive effects throughout the body.
Craniosacral therapy evaluates and corrects restrictions and imbalances in the craniosacral system.  It does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment.