Epley Maneuver Video Dr Chang
Tilt your head 45 degrees toward whichever side is causing the vertigo.
Epley maneuver video dr chang. Lie on your back with a pillow under your shoulder blades such that your head leans backward 25 to 30 degrees. Essentially the head is tilted back as close to 90 degrees as possible. Self help videos to stop vertigo work for some not all vicky hildner university of colorado denver. Christopher chang explains how to perform the epley maneuver and how it works to resolve bppv related vertigo.
Use this maneuver to treat your benign paroxysmal positional vertigo bppv. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. This test is called epleys maneuver for dr. A video demonstrating the maneuver can be watched here.
In this video dr. Notice the pillow behind the shoulders. John epley who first developed and described the test. John epley explains the proper technique for performing the maneuver he developed for treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo bppv.
Epleys maneuver requires observation of the eyes directly or via video recording during and after a patient is carefully guided into a supine position that is likely to elicit vertigo. The deep head hanging maneuver is performed as follows gualtieri et al. Your head must not lie on the pillow.