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Vestibular disorders are diseases that can appear at any age, but are common in adulthood. The disease can lead to serious complications, greatly affecting the patient's quality of life. In addition to Western medical methods, patients can choose to be treated with acupressure massage, which affects the spine to treat vestibular syndrome, helping blood circulation better.1. What is vestibular disorder?
The vestibule is a nervous system located behind the cochlea, helping to maintain posture and coordinate eye, head and trunk movements. The vestibule will tilt as we move to keep the body balanced and oriented. Vestibular disorders occur will cause the body to lose balance in posture, causing patients to often experience dizziness, ringing in the ears, feeling nauseous, dizzy, groggy, easy to fall due to imbalance.. Vestibular disorders may only occur transiently in each bout, but the disease often recurs, affecting the work and life of the patient.
The most dangerous is when the dizziness due to vestibular disorders occurs when the patient is driving or operating machinery because there is a possibility of causing a serious accident. Most vestibular disorders in the elderly, the symptoms of imbalance will take place more severe.
2.Acupressure massage affects the spine to treat vestibular syndrome
Chải đầu bằng tay là một phương pháp xoa bóp bấm huyệt tác động cột sống điều trị hội chứng tiền đình
Acupressure and spinal manipulation massage for vestibular syndrome is a non-drug therapy with little or no side effects, effectively improving symptoms of the disease, helping patients feel better. more comfortable and improved quality of life. Some acupressure massage methods affect the spine to treat vestibular syndrome such as:
2.1. Hand-brushed head-brushing can be considered a method of acupressure massage to treat vestibular syndrome that is both simple and easy to implement but quite effective. Patients use fingers instead of combs, comb in straight and horizontal directions, while combing can combine gently pulling hair roots.
2.2. Press down on the hairline, press at the painful point. Use your fingertips to perform the technique of pressing the hairline and temple area in a spring shape. When the patient is in pain, find and press the pain point in the head area appropriately.
If the pain point when being pressed becomes more uncomfortable, it proves that this is a new case of the disease, it is necessary to perform fast and strong pressing in a short time from 30 - 60 seconds for 1 pain point. If the pain point is more comfortable when pressing, it means that this patient has had the disease for a long time or has repeated many times, when performing pressing, it is necessary to press gently for a longer time, from 2-3 minutes for 1 point. Perform once a day, each time should be from 20 to 30 minutes. If there is still no improvement in 3-5 days, the patient should see a specialist to find out the cause and appropriate treatment.
Động tác bóp đầu theo hướng từ dưới lên trên sau đó thực hiện động tác xoa bóp bấm huyệt điều trị hội chứng tiền đình
2.3. Head patting movement With both hands clasped together, perform a tight finger movement to exert force on the patient's head area.
2.4. Head percussion Use your fingertips to knock around your head, knocking in 2 opposite directions, knocking in a circle.
2.5. Head squeezing Put your thumb on one side and the remaining fingers on one side, then perform acupressure massage to treat vestibular syndrome. Perform head massage in the direction from bottom to top, massage in a rhythmic manner.
2.6. Vibration Two hands hold the patient's head and perform the vibration technique with high frequency.
Hình ảnh bấm huyệt
2.7. Acupressure Use your hands to press on such as: Acupressure point (located between the two eyebrows), Nhan Trung point (point in the middle of the upper lip), internal organs (located in the middle of the palm of the hand, measured up to 2.5 cm). ), Tam yin Giao acupoint ... This therapy will affect the cardiovascular and nervous systems, clear the meridians and help immediately reduce the symptoms of dizziness.
2.8. Rub forehead Use 3 fingers: index finger, middle finger and ring finger close, then proceed to massage the entire forehead, rub back and forth 20-30 times, then massage in combination with squeezing and squeezing along both sides of the hair bow. Eyebrows, help regulate blood and qi, can relieve fire, calm the mind and treat headaches, dizziness, nausea.
2.9. Rub the back of the neck Using both hands facing down, rub vertically, up and down on both sides of the back of the neck, performing up and down 20-30 times to help relax the muscles, increase blood to the brain.
2.10. Rub the eye sockets Performed by taking two index and middle fingers to rub around the eyes, rub clockwise each time from 20 to 30 rounds to help make the eyes clear, calm, open blood circulation and help increase blood circulation. increase blood to the brain...
Ngâm chân bằng nước ấm cũng là một phương pháp điều trị hội chứng tiền đình
2.11. Massage the top of the head Use 3 fingers: index finger, middle finger and ring finger turned upside down, middle finger is placed in the center of the top of the head (position of the baihui point), the next 2 fingers are the four divine acupoints, perform the massage. Press horizontally and vertically like a plus sign with the baihui point in the middle. You should press several times a day, each time from 5 to 10 minutes to help treat headaches, tinnitus, dizziness, nervousness, insomnia ...
2.12. Rub the ear and rub it up and down at the acupoints in front and behind the ear, do it 20-30 times, then rub it evenly at the acupoints around the earlobe from 20 to 30 times. Finally, use 2 palms and face up to 2 ears, press in 5-10 times so that it sounds like a drum in the ear. This trick helps to treat tinnitus, deaf ears, headaches, dizziness...
2.13. Soak your feet with hot water Using hot water with a temperature of 40–45 degrees Celsius to soak your feet, several times a day, for 20–30 minutes each time to help guide the fire to the core, bring the fire down, treat the symptoms. headache, dizziness and other burning sensations.
3.Do not perform acupressure massage to treat vestibular syndrome in any case?
Bệnh nhân đang sốt cao không thực hiện xoa bóp bấm huyệt
In the following cases, massage therapy for vestibular syndrome should not be performed:
Patient has a tumor; The patient is suffering from skin diseases in the head and face area; Patients with hemophilia; The patient has a high fever; The patient is suffering from an acute infectious disease.
4.Prevention of vestibular disorder syndrome recurrence
You can prevent recurrent vestibular disorders by the following steps:
Regularly perform head, neck, and nape movements in a gentle manner, avoid doing too quickly, forcefully, or suddenly Be careful. important in all positions of daily living Reduce stress, anxiety, fully relax Avoid reading books while sitting in a car Sit down or lie down if you suddenly feel dizzy Get regular medical check-up to detect medical diseases that easily cause dizziness... Do not eat too much fat, hot spicy, salty food. Eat a lot of vegetables and foods that cool the body. Provides adequate nutrition for the body and for brain activity.
Không hút thuốc phòng ngừa hội chứng rối loạn tiền đình tái phát
Do not smoke, use carbonated and alcoholic beverages such as alcohol. You can practice yoga and some other light subjects to prevent vestibular disorders. Patients do not buy drugs by themselves because in addition to vestibular disorders, abnormal signs can signal more serious diseases such as stroke, brain tumor, Parkinson's, cardiovascular disease, multiple sclerosis... Vestibular disorder is a dangerous disease and can leave many complications, in addition to Western medical treatments, patients can use acupressure massage methods to affect the spine without using drugs, so it should be limited. side effects, at the same time bring high efficiency, low cost.
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