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Vertigo & Menière's Disease
You've been told it's your inner ear. Nobody has looked at the top of your neck.
The vestibular system is highly sensitive to pressure at the brainstem junction.
Vertigo is one of the conditions Blair practitioners see most, and one of the most disruptive to live with. Balance, spatial orientation and the sense that the room is moving all trace back to systems governed at the craniocervical junction.
The upper cervical connection
The vestibular system does not operate in isolation. It depends on signals passing through the brainstem, and the atlas and axis sit exactly there. A misalignment can affect how those signals are processed — which is why some people with persistent dizziness find no inner-ear abnormality on testing.
What care looks like here
Imaging first, always. Blair analysis accounts for the fact that no two people’s upper cervical anatomy is the same — the joint angles differ, so the correction has to differ too.
Our goal is fewer visits, not more. Follow-up imaging around four to eight weeks tells us whether the correction is holding.
Find out whether this is what you have.
A consultation is a conversation and an examination. We review your history, explain what Blair analysis involves, and image only if it is warranted. If we cannot help you, we will say so.
Book a consultationBlair Upper Cervical care addresses vertebral subluxation. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease or condition. Individual patient results vary.
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