Pressure and dizziness from suboccipital is a nightmare

If you don’t have a second person to help then you can also try this (finally fixed my occipital neuralgia/pinched nerve)- I sat on the floor, crossed my legs, sat with good posture, took my palm and gently pressed my forehead back while applying opposing pressure from the back of my head. I did 3-4 reps of 10 seconds each. Here’s where it gets a little hokie I talked to my nerves and while doing this exercise I said “my nerves are releasing”. I felt the nerve release from under my skull. I’d definitely try if you feel your pinched nerve is trapped under your skull like mine was. Pulling on the back of my head never helped me, only aggravated the burning pain.

My husband just learned how to do this release from your video and I am eternally grateful to you. The amount of pain reduction I get from suboccipital release is astonishing. Thank you for making a really good descriptive guide!

GREAT VIDEO! I have been suffering from occasional unsteadiness, caused by tight neck muscles for 20 years. No medical professional could find a cause. Finally, I found a wonderful, gentle PT in Stillwater, Minnesota (OSI Physical Therapy) who applied this technique. WOW, thanks to her, I am feeling 100% better. I now have neck strengthening exercises to keep my neck strong and relax my sub occipitals. After years of going to MD’s, chiropractors, massage therapists, enduring vestibular rehabilitation therapy - 12 weeks of that nonsense - even an MRI, with NO help, I finally found a PT who applied this exact method. It works! Phew. So thankful!

Great job of instructing with this technique. I've used this many times in massage, but had forgotten what it was called. I learned it from the PT's I worked with for a number of years. Only think I do different is have them breath deeply, and exhale slowly as if blowing up a balloon, all the while consciously focusing on relaxing their neck and shoulders. Thank you for sharing.

This is one of the techniques my chiropractor uses. It releases my pain from old soft tissue injury and gets rid of my headaches . I was trying to teach my husband to do this so this video is an excellent resource, thank you 😊

Excellent video!!! I have my physical therapist do this and it’s wonderful for my neck. I’m very grateful.

I first saw this video a few years ago and use this technique all the time it's absolutely amazing and clients love it ..excellent video it's clear and easy to understand 😊

I love the way he rips her head off at the end, lol! That said, this looks really effective. I'm going to watch this with my husband so he can perform this on me. I'm in pain! Thank you UW.

great job Michael !

When your single and alone and have no one to help you.

I have had this done in massage therapy in Leander, TX at Dr. Group's clinic.

From someone who has had this done, I can say this is a most wonderful treatment - especially the traction afterwards! Think I'll call the RMT again.... :)

thnx man, this really helped me

Good info. Worth the view.

Simple and effective. Nice to see this going mainstream. This and CV-4 release are a good standard for all upper cervical tension and pain.

this was great. im a PT, trying to help my boyfriend and never thought that i had to wait up to 8 min for the UT to release. im gonna try it. thank you. massage therapists know their muscles from constant palpation n experience! (@chiro saying you took a weekend course)

Ok so I've recently pulled my occipital nerve a month ago from sudden neck jerk and been experiencing pain and foggy vision and heavy head...pulled the nerve again 2 days ago and felt so bad today. Had my husband do this for 2 mintues and I feel such a relief 😌...can't imagine once he can last longer for the treatment!!! My doctor tried prescribing me Amitriptyline but glad I am trying with a natural approach first.

Good instructive explanation and video. Thanks

Good Information. Thanks :)

Very very helpful video, Thanque sir..

Thank you!!!

The one thing we truly own is the art of the adjustment and for that we can be proud

Thanks, help me to relax👌👌

This is the best ❤

I need this !!!!!!

You know it's funny but I used to do something kind of like this by resting my neck on something and it would make it feel better. I never knew why it worked just that it did. Now I see why! Of course it doesn't work as well as a trained person doing it, but sometimes it's a good backup for when pain is bad and I can't get to a therapist do have it worked on.

Thanks for the excellent explanation, it was helpful and was able to apply right away. I am a Naturopath and could use in my practice.

Doctor of Chiropractic

This worked for me, but a neurologist did it. After the procedure I felt my brain had become refreshed.... I thought it was hooey, but it worked for me so now I believe it, and I am a hard ass skeptic...

Can this be done after having brain decompression with laminectomy at c-1 and partial c-2? It’s been 3 and a half years since my surgery.I’ve always struggled since with occipital Neuralgia. But right now I’m struggling with the suboccipital muscles. I have a Chiari Malformation.

Have you ever used a neck hammock (sling) that attaches to a doorknob while you lay on the floor? It’s supposed to gently pull the head and neck similar to what you’re doing with your hands. I don’t want to more harm than good.

my therapist treated me with this today. It was very effective. Having another treatment on Friday.

If you're in Vegas, feel free to reach out. 💪🏾

Do you use this on lower back and upper back as well?

I need this bad

cwolf...if you were a massage therapist or working in healthcare, you would know the underlying structures.

Will this be ok for early onset Alzheimer's that starts in the bilateral occepital lobes? My brother just diagnosed and I'm wanting to help him so badly. Don't want to mention anything stupid or harmful.

So to be clear, your 3rd and 4th fingers stay ABOVE the C2 spinous process the whole time. Your fingers are never lateral to the C2 spinous process? I want to do this technique but I feel as though my 3rd and 4th fingers are not strong enough to hold that position and weight.

How often should this be done?

Great, but how does one do this to themselves?

I had this done a few years ago by a chiropractor and 15 seconds in I fainted for about 20 seconds. I had weakness for a couple days after that and was scared to drive. Recently I did this on myself just lightly with my fingertips, enough pressure to lightly bruise an apple, and I held for a minute. My limbs weakened and I couldn’t sleep that night. I kept getting sharp pains around my brain in random spots but they didn’t hurt and lasted 2 seconds at most. It’s now 2 days since I did this and I’m doing better but still feel a sense of dizziness. I tried lying my neck on a rolled towel but it made the issue worse and made me dizzier. Where can I go to address this? Obviously something is wrong but I’m only 23! I’ve seen a NUCCA chiropractor before all this too where he only adjusted my C1 vertebrae and fixed my spinal tilt in 6 months from a 12.6° degree tilt to now a 6.2° tilt. But I don’t see how that would affect me to this degree… I would love for this technique in the video to help me! 😢

Suppose the atlas is two or more degrees twisted left or right of the axis? Or maybe not flush with it? Or both? Will this fix it?

What feeling or cranial rhythm do you feel in the sub-occipital area that is good or normal?

I can do by myself this ?

Doing this to myself. I get a jiggling in the center of my upper lip.

I have serious cervical problems C-7 through C-4 discs need to be fused, in a cervical revision due to an incompetent neurosurgeon who performed a c-6/c-7 fusion. I also have Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and have gotten enormous relief from this procedure. I only wish I could somehow perform it on myself at home.

Is there a way to do this myofascial treatment to my neck by myself? When I stand up my pain in at the base of my skull & my forehead; also when I strain or bend over.

@chirovip58 And when these people who aren't skilled in the spine and nervous system injure a person, what is it reported as? "A chiropratictic manipulation injures.... Nebraska allows only a DC to perform spine work...pretty smart state huh?

Is this technique useful in forward head posture?

10 years I suffered from neck pain, headache, vertigo TMJ symptom and nobody did this to me or telling me what to do only pill .Thank you but where are you dr 👍🙋‍♀️

Can this be use for double vision?

Wow, I'm going to try this. It looks totally awesome. Maybe my partner and I can try it on eachother.

Who all are watching this video 2021..

If someone is tight in this area can it cause dizziness? Also where can a person go to have this technique done? Thank you in advance for your time and attention, I appreciate it.

It looks like she was in pain.

Can this be self-administered, I wonder?

Try this and get a sub occipital chiropractic adjustment for real relief

This technique is being used for stress related headaches, or muscle relax therapy. Migraine is being considered (only theories no evidence for..) as a vascular problem so, obviously this won't work.

wow the world look so brownish to me as I'm wearing a brown sunglass while watching this video otherwise my eyes hurt.

Please I am suffering with this pain 😢

Is tightness on this muscle associated with chronic tinnitus and intermittent muscle spasm pains and does forward head posture or using tablets and phones cause this to worsen

"patients will love you..." And cut 7:50

Does anybody else get dizziness and pressure from occipital neuralgia

Funny what we chiropractors have been doing for 117 years is suddenly in the mainstream medical play book. Chiropractic has over 50 techniques both soft tissue and hard tissue. I wouldn't put my neck in the hands of someone who took a weekend course and called himself certified.

Thats the part of my head that is swollen on both sides. With migraines and pain.

Can one of you explain why occipital nerve injuries from auto accidents are still termed "occipital neuralgia" as if it is a disease. This cop-out simply gives auto insurance companies a way out as if our injuries are preexisting conditions.

wanna see a massage therapist to see if this helps with my skull splitting migraines and visual snow

Who else has a splitting cluster fuck headache right now

Ha!

DC= "Doctor of Chiropactic" Chiropractic Doctor, Chiropractor. 4 years undergraduate, more prerequisite (entrance requirements) than medical school and 500 more hours but with similar curricula as medicine.

for visual snow?

Can this cause occular migraine

I don't understand why I get pressure only on the right side of my head

I had a sore neck

I have Occipital Neuralgia and it hits right side, behind my ear! Right now, I'm just dying with this sever pain! Aargh!!!

Why hasn't my neurologist ever tried this for me? Been seeing him for 5 or more years and all I get is meds that don't work. These episodes are killing me.

''one to two inches of mass'' lol

i was injured by a dentist. i had cranial sacral therapy, this move you're doing, and it reinstigated the occiptal neuralgia that the dentist caused. where i had gotten rid of it after a chiro neck adjustment followed by 2 weeks of suicide headaches. i wouldn't just suggest this be done. it can cause harm.

Visual snow

Alicia is gorgeous. But this technique won't fix my headaches

Will this work for certain types of tinnitus?

I thought Mike Johnson was a black Canadian!!!!!?

In Polarity practice there is a remarkably identical protocol. I have also heard of NUCCA chiropractic. Of course the pharmacidical industry would burn you at the stake for actually wanting to heal without their drugs. Problem is, they have been sanctioned to do everything just short of that.

That's funny since osteopathy was the beginning of this technique.

My wife has Chiari type with a decompression surgery and still has insane muscle tightness and blinding headaches. I actually do this for her and it helps somewhat. Never saw this technique anywhere but the idea made sense for me for some reason. I even use some slight traction. But her relief is just enough to relax and sometimes the pain comes right back. The waiting up to 8 min or more makes so much sense and the slow release to eliminate rebound is mind blowing for me right now. I knew nothing about that happening. Also the arm resting on the table for fatigue is brilliant. My hands hurt so much doing this. I appreciate the tips and explanation so much! I really feel this will help me in helping her going forward. God bless!

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Why do women seem to get this so often?

Why do this cause arousal

Wow...chiropractors have been around for 117 years? that's only 3,823 or so years less than massage therapy has been around. Did you know that most western forms of medicine were developed using the ancient eastern modalities of soft tissue manipulation?

Amen. As has every international and U.S. govt. study; For the management and resolution of neck and low back pain; The National Institute of Health recently concluded that chiropractic is both much safer and effective than medicine, osteopathy, and PT (Annals of Internal Medicine Jan. 3 2012).

DITTO! Every federal and state govt. study, along with every international study, found chiropractic to be both much safer and effective than medicine, osteoathy, and PT. Chiropractic ownes the spine, muscles, and nervous system. Chiropractic's curricula is similar but 500 hours longer than that of medicine's.

Stop with all the anatomy jargon and just show us how to do the damn thang.

Endorsement of videos like this is one of the reasons family med is perceived as a joke of a specialty. I like family med docs, but stop shooting yourselves in the foot.