Can Chiropractic care Cervicogenic Dizziness?

Reason #2: to determine how often manual professionals (such as chiropractors) see & treat patients with neck pain and dizziness. 

• Respondents reported that over 44% of their older adult patients with neck pain were at risk of falls, and over one-quarter of them suffered from cervicogenic dizziness.

There you go.  Chiropractors do see of course elderly patients with neck pain and dizziness and get positive results in their treatments.  Also, interesting that they mention ~25% of them actually had Cervicogenic Dizziness.

I would imagine this is very similar to a PT outpatient office but two questions to mind:

1. How many of our outpatient, orthopedic physical therapists are confident to treat dizziness as well?
2. How many of our vestibular/neuro/geriatric physical therapy clinics are confident to treat neck pain as well?

I think these are very reasonable questions and unfortunately, I do not know the answer.

One of our major goals is to merge our profession to do just as this paper proved—a healthcare practitioner (in this case=chiropractors) can treat patients together with neck pain and dizziness.

We do think formal training in both can help and considering neither the big manual therapy training or big vestibular training focus on Cervicogenic Dizziness, we helped fill this gap with our course.

You can learn more about the screening and treatment process of Cervicogenic Dizzinesss through Integrative Clinical Concepts, where the authors (husband–a manual therapist a wife—a vestibular specialist), teach a very unique course combining both the theory and practice of vestibular and manual principles in their 2-day course.  Pertinent to this blog post, the 2nd day includes the “Physio Blend”, a multi-faceted physiotherapist approach to the management of Cervicogenic Dizziness, which includes treatments of the articular and non-articular system of manual therapy and the most updated sensorimotor exercise regimen.

If you would like to host a course for your staff (either a vestibular, neuro, sports or ortho clinic), please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected] for more information.

AUTHORS

Harrison N. Vaughan, PT, DPT, OCS, Dip. Osteopracic, FAAOMPT    

Instructor: Cervicogenic Dizziness for Integrative Clinical Concepts

Danielle N. Vaughan, PT, DPT, Vestibular Specialist  

Instructor: Cervicogenic Dizziness for Integrative Clinical Concepts