Sixth Nerve Palsy What is it and How Can You Treat It?

Sixth Nerve Palsy affects the lateral rectus eye muscle and can affect the person’s ability to track their eyes horizontally. This can cause issues with reading, copying content, and double vision. So today, we will walk through what Sixth Nerve Palsy is and how it might be treated holistically. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. You can now text me! Text 'Join' to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask a question! SUMMARY KEYWORDS restriction, eye, homeopath, cranial sacral therapy, prism, called, fluid, cranial nerve, vision, muscle, impinging, therapy, classical homeopathy, cranial, work, reflex, body, question, visual, type Hello, everyone. It’s Dr. Sam. I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, I'd like to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. I'm gonna take a question today. But before I do that, I wanted to let you know about a new way to send me your questions. This is through texting, so you can text me your questions, I'll give you the phone number. It's 1-844-932-1291. This is valid for the United States and Canada. So listeners there if you want to text me your question, I'll be happy to answer it. Alright, let's get to today's show, we're going to take a question from a concerned mom. And she's got a child that's been diagnosed with something called a sixth nerve palsy. And there is a syrinx placed pressure on this nerve, this cranial nerve. And I'll define what that is in a moment. And she's asking, is there anything that can be done from a more holistic integrative approach, the neurosurgeon wants to do a very risky surgery. So in this particular case, when you have a six nerve palsy, it's affecting the specific eye muscle we call the lateral rectus muscle. So this is affecting a person's ability to track their eyes horizontally, so like for reading, copying from the board. And when you have a sixth nerve palsy, one of the symptoms is double vision. Another symptom is that there can be a restriction and the eye muscle itself, so that when you're tracking horizontally from side to side, one of the eyes will have a restriction and won't be able to track as well as the other eye. Now, syrinx is a type of sack that contains fluid, we usually see it in terms of the cerebral spinal fluid, and how it surrounds and cushions the brain and the spinal cord. But when this capsule starts impinging, so it's forming and impinging on the sixth nerve, it's actually sending signals to the lateral rectus muscle of the eye, but it creates this restriction. Now before surgery, there are some things that you could do before you went ahead and did this type of surgery, number one, would be looking for cranial sacral therapy. Now, this is a type of bodywork. I was actually trained in this over 25 years ago, and I found the connection between the bones of the head, the bones that surround the face and into the eye socket. And how that relates to the eyes and vision. So cranial sacral therapy, just as an overview is a type of body work that can help relieve compression in the bones of the head around the eyes. It can also help relieve pressure in the head. And in the sacrum spinal column. It's a non invasive procedure, you keep your clothes on, you're lying on the massage table. And the therapists will gently feel the what we call the movement, the cranial rhythm of different parts of your body, you know,