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“New Help for Ringing in the Ears!”
Says Recent Women’s Magazine Article
Ross Hauser, M.D.,
Marion Hauser, M.S.,R.D.
A recent article in Good Housekeeping stated “…some 15% of women over 45 suffer
from chronic tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. It can be maddening, but you may
be able to find relief by figuring out what is causing the problem, according to
William Martin, PhD, director of Tinnitus Clinic at Oregon Health & Science
University.”
The article goes on to talk about possible causes
as being high blood pressure,
hypothyroidism, allergies, or infection. They talk
about treating the symptoms with high dose aspirin, or other drugs.
They also state that often no cause may be found,
so many patients find relief with a “white-noise machine”…I don’t know about
you, but I would not find that to be a sufficient remedy to constant ringing in
the ears?
At
Caring Medical, we have found that most people
with
tinnitus are suffering from
Barre-Lieou
Syndrome. In 1925, Jean Alexandre Barre, M.D., a French Neurologist, and in
1928, Yong-Choen Lieou, a Chinese physician, each independently described a
syndrome with a variety of symptoms thought to be due to a dysfunction in the
posterior
cervical
sympathetic
nervous system (a group of nerves located near the vertebrae in the neck).
The posterior cervical sympathetic syndrome became known as Barre-Lieou
Syndrome.
Symptoms that characterize the Barre-Lieou Syndrome include
headache, facial
pain, ear pain, vertigo, tinnitus, loss of voice, hoarseness,
neck pain,
severe
fatigue, muscle weakness, sinus congestion, sense of eyeball being pulled out,
dizziness, fatigue, numbness. Other symptoms may include dysesthesias of the
hands and forearms (pins-and-needles sensation), corneal sensitivity, dental
pain, lacrimation (tearing of the eyes), blurred vision, facial numbness,
shoulder pain,
swelling
on one side of the face, nausea, vomiting, and localized
cyanosis of the face (bluish color).
A
reasonable question to ask is how can one disorder cause all of these problems?
The answer is that any type of vertebral instability can affect the function of
the nerve cells located in the front of the neck just in front of the
vertebrae. The vertebral instability or malalignment occurs because the
ligaments that support the neck become injured. This is what occurs
in the commonly known
whiplash injury. Not only do neck and
headache pain occur
with whiplash injury, but also the signs and symptoms of Barre-Lieou Syndrome.
Why
do people with Barre-Lieou often have ringing in the ears, dizziness, and stuffy
noses? It is because of an accumulation of fluid in the inner ear. When fluid
accumulates in the inner ear, as is often the case with an upper respiratory
infection, the ear feels full and the body feels off balance. Ringing in the ear
(tinnitus), spinning (vertigo), or dizziness can occur.
When
Prolotherapy is performed on the head and
neck, conditions such as dizziness, tinnitus, and vertigo (Meniere's Disease)
can all be eliminated if the symptoms are due to Barre Lieou Syndrome. Often,
immediately after
Prolotherapy injections to the posterior head and neck areas,
patients with Barre-Lieou Syndrome, who have had sinus trouble for years,
experience clear breathing which they have not had in years. People using
decongestants for years for "chronic allergies" and "chronic sinus infections"
are often immediately helped by Prolotherapy injections into the head and neck
region.
The other symptoms such as blurred vision, severe fatigue, dysesthesias (pins
and needles down the arm), low blood pressure, and low heart rate are easily
understood by a decrease in the output of the sympathetic nervous system of the
head, neck, and face areas. Prolotherapy injections to the head and neck region
cause the vertebrae to realign, which decreases the compression of the nerves.
Upon realignment, the Barre-Lieou Syndrome and its symptomatology are abated.
So, if we were you, we wouldn’t listen to what we read in the women’s magazines!
This is not the true source of health information as many people
think. There is new help for ringing in the ears – but it is not high dose
medications or a white noise machine! The answer is Prolotherapy! Give us a call
if ringing in the ears is driving you crazy!
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