Treating Vertigo With Massage Therapy
Vertigo is the sensation that you or your surroundings are spinning, whirling, or moving and can be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sweating, and involuntary eye movements.
Vertigo is a symptom of something disturbing your sense of balance, not a disease in itself.
There can be many causes, including, but not limited to, inner ear fluid, Meniere’s disease, cerebral hemorrhaging (bleeding in the back of the brain), multiple sclerosis, and head and neck injury. First off, if you are experiencing vertigo I recommend getting checked out thoroughly by a physician to determine the cause.
This article is for those of you who have already been checked out, and yet no cause could be determined.
One of the causes overlooked for vertigo is tension in muscles in the neck area, especially when one side is significantly more tense than the other.
When muscles in this area tense up, they pull at their attachments at the base of the skull, frequently causing tension headaches. Tight muscles also decrease circulation in their surrounding areas. The affect of having one side pulling at the base of the skull more than the other and a decrease in circulation can cause not only headaches, but vertigo as well. So, what do you do to fix this problem? You guessed it! Massage therapy, of course.
Visit a licensed massage therapist proficient in deep tissue work, preferably one with experience in medical massage, and especially in treating this condition. For those of you in the Colleyville, TX area, I focus in deep tissue massage and medical massage and do have experience in treating tension that causes vertigo, very successfully. I set up treatment plans for those who come to me with issues that require personalized treatment options.
From the desk of Neelou Saleh Spirit of Lotus
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