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Colorado Doctor Finds Way To Treat Common Vertigo. CBS4 Health Specialist Kathy Walsh met the doctor who discovered the maneuver. Carol Foster is at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Foster’s recently published research is a breakthrough in the treatment of vertigo and could be life-changing for people who are disabled at times by extreme dizzy spells.
Vertigo is like dizziness, except that it is more extreme and gives the sensation of the room spinning around you. If you are experiencing vertigo, please see your doctor as vertigo can have different causes. A common type of vertigo is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) which happens when a person turns his/her head quickly, or turns over in bed, after which it takes a little time for the spinning to stop. Vertigo can not only be a frightening sensation, it can also cause nausea and vomiting.
The sensation of vertigo actually comes from the inner ear. One of my patients who experiences bouts of vertigo found Dr. Carol Foster’s video.
Foster is the Director of the Balance Laboratory at the University of Colorado Hospital in the Department of Otolaryngology. 1 To quote Dr.
Foster, “We have the cochlea – the hearing part of the ear, and then we have the semi-circular canals – the spinning sensors. What happens is: the particles that are in the utricle can sometimes get into this opening [see video below]. Then when you lie down in bed at night, the particles can just fall in by gravity. When the particles build up to a big enough lump that they form a piston in the canal, when you move your head, the particles move a sensor (in the inner ear) and you feel tha t as spinning.” 2 After experiencing vertigo herself, Dr. Foster invented an easy maneuver that knocks the particles loose which helps to alleviate the vertigo. If possible, have someone there to steady you as the maneuver itself will cause you to have some vertigo while you’re performing it. For more information, watch Dr.
Carol Foster’s highly informative video here.
By Neil Bauman, Ph.D. More than 7 million people in the USA suffer from vertigo, a condition where they feel the room is spinning around them. One of the most common forms of vertigo goes by the tongue-twisting name of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). It is also one of the easiest forms of vertigo to treat. In the past you would go to an ear specialist (ENT doctor) and he would typically perform the Epley maneuver on you to reposition the otoconia (tiny rocks in your head made of calcium carbonate crystals). These tiny crystalline rocks help you keep your balance by sensing gravity.
They normally reside in the utricle in the vestibular (balance) part of your inner ear. However, sometimes these “rocks” get jarred out of their normal location and “fall” into one of the three semi-circular canals. (The semi-circular canals sense turning motions in each of three different planes.) When the “rocks” touch the tiny cilia in the semi-circular canals, they generate false balance signals. Carol Foster explains, “The semicircular canals are only capable of sensing turning motions, so the presence of particles moved by gravity causes tilting motions of the head to be incorrectly sensed as violent spinning” (1) or vertigo. Often the vertigo first strikes you when you are in bed and not when you are standing. This is because when you are upright the entrance to the semicircular canals lies just above the gravity sensors (utricle)—and “rocks” don’t fall upward!
However, when you are lying flat on your back, the entrance to the semi-circular canals is located just below the utricle. This means that gravity coupled with side-to-side rolling movements as you roll over in bed can accidentally “knock” the otoconia into the opening of the semi-circular canals.(1) As Dr.