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by appplication 948 days ago
My dad had pretty severe vertigo after a fall. Two doctors told him there wasn’t a great treatment for chronic vertigo and that his best hope was that it would go away eventually.

I spent 30 minutes searching online, learned about the Epley maneuver, tried it on him and it basically cleared up immediately. The maneuver itself was, to him, extremely disorienting for the 60 seconds or so it takes to administer. I recall him thrashing about because he said it felt like he was falling and didn’t know which way was down.

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Same with my Dad. And was a doctor. Other docs were no help, so he Googled it, found a practitioner nearby, done.