

Cranial adjusting yields favorable results. Here the configuration of the cranial bones becomes less than optimum and the Eustachian tube ability of open and close is affected. Often, the help comes from endonasal cranial adjusting. In fact, there is great research on chiropractic and ear infections. Hence, the problem was spinal nerve interference leading to a drainage issue and not just a bug that needed to be killed. Many people in our office (including infants with ear infections) have had results after having years of antibiotics without consequence. When there is a misalignment of the spine, where nerves go to the Tensor Veli Palatini muscle for instance, proper drainage is inhibited from the middle ear at the nasopharynx and an infection is often the result. Nerves from your spine travel to the muscles that control the Eustachian tube. These issues have had very promising results in our office with conservative, non-surgical, non-pharmacological methods.įor many ear/Eustachian Tube problems standard chiropractic care is beneficial. The problem is usually that the symptoms, or resulting pathology, are treated rather than the Eustachian Tube itself. On some occasions, these conditions can have causes that may require medical routes like tonsillectomy, antibiotics, steroids or even surgery. Removes discharge from the middle ear and sends it to the nasopharynx.Įustachian Tube Dysfunction is when the Eustachian tube fails to fully open or close when it is supposed to. Protects the middle ear from mucus and loud sounds. Ventilates and regulates pressure in your middle ear. Introducting the Muncie technique… The Eustachian tube has three main functions:

That crackling you heard in your ears when you yawned was this tube opening up and equalizing pressure in your ears. Your Eustachian tube is a passageway that starts in the middle ear and empties out in the back of your throat to a pocket called the nasopharynx. San Jose, CA Eustachian Tube Dysfunction (ETD) & Modified Muncie TechniqueĪre you sitting there yawning, taking a sip of water or, perhaps, you just blew your nose? Well, you relied on a functioning Eustachian tube. This is the first time in 15 years!” Thanks you, Dr. It’s been a month now and the symptoms haven’t come back. The very next morning, the water and pain in my ear was gone. I didn’t like the experience but, immediately after doing it, I began to spit out a little blood and a lot of mucus. Fields, told him about it and he performed the Muncie technique. Finally, a doctor said, ‘Well, what you have in there is like congestion.’ and ‘Its like post nasal drip that accumulates in the ear.'” At first they would say, ‘There’s nothing in it’. Because this was so troubling, I went to several doctors about it. My ear felt like it had been clogged with something. I didn’t know it but I had Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. “For about 15 years I had been experiencing pain in my left ear.
