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Michael T. Burcon, DC started researching Meniere’s disease (MD) ten years ago after having three MD patients quickly recover from their vertigo under upper cervical specific chiropractic care. His papers have been published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research and the textbook, Upper Cervical Subluxation Complex, a Review of the Chiropractic and Medical Literature, by Kirk Ericksen in 2004.
Burcon has established a link between both Meniere’s disease and Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) with whiplash injuries that misalign the base of the skull with the top of the neck creating a lesion affecting the Eustachian tube and/or the Trigeminal ganglion. About half of these traumas are caused by vehicular traumas and the other half from injuries involving head trauma. Burcon believes that the correlation was not made because it takes an average of fifteen years from the time the patient was injured until the onset of symptoms.
Patients typically get diagnosed with MD or TN in middle age. Their injuries most often happened during high school or college years from a car accident, sports injury or fall on their heads. Few patients list these old injuries on their doctor’s admission paper work. In fact, they have often forgotten about them, believing they were not hurt if they were not admitted to the hospital.

Welcome to the Meniere’s Research web site. Chronic illnesses can have a devastating impact not only on the patient, but also on the patients family. In today’s new world of medicine, many consumers have come to realize that they are primarily responsible for their own health care as well as for the health care of their loved ones. This is especially true when it comes to dealing with Meniere’s disease.

Many patients go years before getting diagnosed. Then they often are not given a clear choice of treatment plans. It can be particularly aggravating to try to explain to a friend or loved one, or employer, about Meniere’s. They see you when you are not experiencing an episode and think, “You don’t look sick to me.” Vertigo is to dizziness what migraine is to headache. If you have not experienced vertigo, it is hard to understand how devastating it can be.

We hope that our website will provide you with helpful answers about your choices in treatments once you have been properly diagnosed with Meniere’s disease. These options are based upon the last fifteen years of peer reviewed literature, both in traditional allopathic medicine and in complementary and alternative medicine.