Although the subject of the article had Meniere's, the treatment is for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)......
More than 7 million people in the United States can expect to have benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), especially as they age. Unlike Meniere’s Disease, where the cause is often unknown, BPPV is caused by gravity-sensing particles in the ear accidentally entering the spinning-motion sensors of the ear. The symptoms of BPPV can be relieved by maneuvers that relocate the particles.
With the room spinning around her, Foster made a model of the ear with her fingers and tilting and turning the model in front of her eyes, she began to conceive a maneuver that might get the particles out of her horizontal canal and back where they belonged.
“Bing! It was gone,” said Foster. “The second those particles moved out, the spinning just dead stopped.”
A moment later, Foster realized the implications of what she had discovered. This was instant relief from a terribly disabling experience that a patient could do at home, alone—and for free.