Is Your Vertigo Coming From Your Neck or Your Inner Ear? An Honest Guide From a Sarasota Upper Cervical Practice
By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL Here’s something you won’t hear from most clinics fighting for your business: vertigo is not one problem with one answer. Anyone who tells you it’s always the inner ear — or always the neck...
Cervicogenic Autonomic Dysfunction: When Your Neck Is Driving Your Dizziness, Brain Fog, and Racing Heart
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL You’ve been told your dizziness is “anxiety.” Your brain fog is “just stress.” Your racing heart, the lightheadedness when you stand, the wave of nausea that comes from nowhere —...
Can Eustachian Tube Dysfunction Cause Headaches? The Ear-Pressure and Head-Pain Overlap Nobody Explains
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL You’ve felt it: a plugged, full, underwater feeling in one or both ears that won’t pop — and somehow, right alongside it, a headache that seems to live behind your...
Neck Exercises for Brachioradial Pruritus: Gentle Self-Care, and the One Step That Actually Reaches the Source
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL If your forearms burn, tingle, and itch with no rash to explain it, you’ve probably figured out by now that the creams don’t work — and you may have started...
Pain and Pressure at the Base of the Skull: The Upper Cervical Root Cause Almost Nobody Checks
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL If you press your thumb into the spot where your skull meets your neck and feel a deep ache, a band of tightness, or a strange pressure that seems to...
POTS and Exercise Intolerance: Why Standing and Activity Are So Hard — and the Cause Behind It
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By Dr. Rusty Lavender — Lavender Family Chiropractic, Sarasota, FL If you have POTS, you already know the cruelty of “just move more.” You stand up and your heart races, your head swims, your legs fill with wet sand —...