Two LA women develop bizarre ear disease caused by their massage gun READ MORE: Woman felt like she was 'on a carnival ride' from vertigo By Maiya Focht For Dailymail.Com Published: 17:19, 16 May 2024 | Updated: 18:04, 21 May 2024 e-mail 24 shares 14 View comments Last year, two Los Angeles women, aged 31 and 48, visited Cedars-Sinai hospital on separate occasions suffering from a mysterious, debilitating illness. They were hit with the classic symptoms of vertigo: a condition that causes constant dizziness and feels as if you are on a never-ending carnival ride.
The majority of patients also suffer nausea, making it difficult to even get out of bed. There was no obvious cause in either case as both women were relatively young and healthy. Doctors were puzzled, until they discovered that the patients shared a daily habit — using a battery powered massager to ease aching shoulders and necks.
Vertigo is a condition that causes intense dizziness, nausea and difficulty moving. One sufferer described it as feeling like being on a carnival ride in a 2020 case study. When the doctors asked the women to cease their massage gun routine, their conditions were cured almost immediately.
These two cases led Dr Ronen Nazarian, an otolaryngologist at Cedars-Sinai and doctoral student David Elisha, to conclude that using devices like these on your shoulders and neck can make people develop a rare condition called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). They explain that the intense vi.
