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The benefits of chiropractic care for those who are afflicted with vertigo are discussed in a research report published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research of November 8, 2006. Sixty patients that were diagnosed with vertigo by their doctors were given chiropractic care in the study; then the results were noted and published.

A feeling of spinning with dizziness characterizes the condition of vertigo. Light-headedness, nausea, and problems with balance are experienced by many sufferers due to the feeling of rotation or movement. There are no lab tests for vertigo, so diagnosis is normally based on the symptoms that patients describe. The study investigated a causal link between vertigo and the nervous system.

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The vast majority of patients reported having incurred a physical trauma before the spells of vertigo started. The patients in the study reported their injuries were incurred by auto accidents, sports injuries (such as skiing or bicycling), or slipping on ice. A notation was made that head or neck area trauma was suffered by all of these individuals.

Initial examinations of the 60 patients revealed that all had vertebral subluxations. So that there would be a consistent method of measuring subluxation findings and correction progress, analysis procedures were performed utilizing paraspinal digital infrared imaging.

All of the sixty subjects in this study received chiropractic care that was specific for subluxation correction. There was a positive response from all of the patients included in this study to that care, as shown by the results. There was a one- to six-month variation in the time frame for the responses. Within a half a year, 48 of the original 60 patients had no more symptoms. There was also better improvement shown by the twelve patients that were remaining with either frequency or severity in vertigo episodes.

There is a definite causal relationship between neck injury and spells of vertigo, as reported by the author of the study. It seems that utilizing IUCCA protocol, which is a form of chiropractic care, to correct the injury to the upper cervical spine, improves and/or reverses vertigo disorders.

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