How To Treat Vertigo At Home
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When Carol Foster, MD, associate professor at the CU School of Medicine, started experiencing bouts of vicious dizziness and accompanying nausea, she was stunned—not because she didn’t know what was happening, but because this disease was so much more severe than she had ever realized, even as a practicing physician.
Foster had Meniere’s Disease, a disorder of the inner ear that causes bouts of vertigo that can last for hours. In her case, the attacks hit her almost every day.
But instead of crumbling, she decided to fight back
Dr. Carol Foster made a model of the ear with her fingers and tilting and turning the model in front of her eyes, she began to conceive a maneuver that might get the particles out of her horizontal canal and back where they belonged.
Then, she translated the theory she had created with her finger model into action, with a half-somersault, followed by a head turn and another quick move of the head.
“Bing! It was gone,” said Foster. “The second those particles moved out, the spinning just dead stopped.”
A moment later, Foster realized the implications of what she had discovered. This was instant relief from a terribly disabling experience that a patient could do at home, alone—and for free.
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