Ear Equalization Techniques - Valsalva Maneuver - SingHealth Healthy Living Videos
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2011
- Do you have the sensation of blocked ears? Blocked ears are caused by a rapid change in air pressure, notably occurring during the take-off and landing sequences of an airplane flight.
Learn four ear equalisation techniques to help you relieve the blocking sensation in your ears. In this video, the following techniques will be demonstrated: the Valsalva maneuver, Toynbee maneuver, the Jaw Wiggle, and the Otovent.
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thank you sir. I am from the usa and have estuchian tube problems. thank you for showing these methods. very well explained.
I've always had ear issues and have been using this maneuver for 20+ years and has daily improved my quality of life.
Same😊
How can we blow through nose in valsalva maneuver?
@@rimshahassan6607 You close your mouth, pinch your nose closed, and gently to moderately breathe through your nose while holding it closed. It's very important that if you don't feel it clear or some relief with light to moderate pressure, stop. There is a risk of rupturing your eardrum(s) if you apply too much pressure, just go slow and gentle. Try blowing your nose with both nostrils closed. It takes practice but is helpful to maintain your equilibrium if you have inner ear issues. I'm in no way an expert, hope this helps.
Very helpful. Some comments based on my having tried all the techniques:
1. The original Valsalva where you pinch your nose is by far the most effective.
2. With the Toynbee, I ended up with a drenched shirt.
3. Jaw wriggle technique feels very awkward and actually caused semi-lockjaw when I tried it.
4. Otovent requires significant coordination and balloon management skills, or else the balloon will slip off, or even fly away. I saw it done well in Ear Equalizer: The Movie, but I suspect it involved use of AI.
Thank you for these demonstrations!
🙏👍🏼 I only knew one!! Flying with kids… this is very helpful!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!😍
Learned a new way to blow up a balloon, thank you.
"Sir, birthday parties are not allowed onboard a public plane"
Thank you. I could hear it very clearly. 2 & 3 gave me some relief. Great video!!
Thank You so much, Doctor
Thank you doc! It works 👍🏻
Thank you so much 🙏🏼
thank you for the video, it really helpful!
Thank you!
The water and nose method worked wonders
thanks so much. from Texas
Thank you, so much. You have made flying so much better for me.;] The Toynbee works wonderfully.
Please tell me details and now condition
@@MeReMuTaBiQ I can now fly without using a steroid spray;] I just take a drink with me and follow the instructions that are on the video ;] No problems now.
Thank you. Best concise and precise video. I really needed this!
my ears be so cloged i cant hear the video lol
but you can read it duh -_-
@@darkpanda239 They weren’t saying they couldn’t understand the video, they were just explaining that their ears are so blocked up that they can’t hear the video properly -_-
@@ChattyCinnamon Well, neither did I say they didn't understand the video. I just pointed out that they can watch it if they can't hear it ;D
@@darkpanda239 I didn’t mean couldn’t understand the video, I meant ‘they couldn’t absorb the information from the vid’
@@darkpanda239 And my point was that the original comment wasn’t making a point about not being able to absorb the information from the video whether it be reading or listening, the point of the comment was to show how bad OC’s hearing is
ywning can help too.
idk why but blowing air out of my nose while pinched has just always made my ears even more clogged:D
OMissIssippiO same thing happened here.. I now hear the ringing along with clogged ear. Thanks Valsalva🤟
@@VickTechPro 😂😂
Damn I tried this just now and both of my ears are now clogged!
@@rZoro- did it hurt while u were doing it?mine did hurt I’m afraid 🥲🥲🥲
@@rZoro- alright ! Gotcha thank u👍
Thanks
Thank you God bless you !
Thank you so much.
Thanks I am so happy I followed your video and its unblocked
Out of all techniques only Valsalva maneuver worked for me but only for right ear, my left ear is still not making that pop sound and feels clogged. What should I do doctor? I have already consulted 2 specialist and they all tell to do this Valsalva maneuver and prescribe some nasal sprays that make my nostrils too dry and I hate them.
Thank you for the information!
You gotta do it very carefully cause it can give too much pressure and your ear will be damaged and it'll hurt like hell.
Dam that happened to me 😢
@@Avaont1111how are you now😢? Im facing the same.
How are you now? 😭@@bhasithavanneti4803
Thank you Singapore General Health and Meng! After almost a month of very painful ear pressure from eustachian tube dysfunction and no relief from anti-histamines and steroid nose sprays, the "jaw wriggle" did the trick for me. I had tried every other "equalization" technique I could find and nothing else had helped. Thanks again!
Anna Schlotzhauer Interestingly, the jaw wriggle seems to be a simple version of the Galbreath Maneuver (Maneouvre) which you can look up. It's actually an Osteopathic technique (which I have only just today discovered).
This video is quite a neat little summary of the various techniques, and as I think he refers to, there are others.
btw, my ENT gets me to do the Valsalva from time to time, so I presume it is reasonably safe.
@@montmorencyyou mine too ENT makes me do Valsalva
First one works fine. Thank You
this manover was the hardest part of my exam where i explained to my subjects how to do it and they were not able to understand and i was short of time where i was given a task of complete ear examination within 3 minutes and valava was also a part of it...anyways i succeded at last...lolx
It works
Thank you but how many times can try this until my ear closed
Does it work for wax?
thx the 1st method worked
How often can we do this
Thank You very much!... :)
Is party baloons used for otovent method? or which baloon is to be used ? Pl. help doctor. Rajamani Chennai
Thank you Dr . I am going bring along a dozen balloons the next time I board a plane .
Toynbee maneuver helped but it didn't pop it completely :/
What the hell...Omg 2nd methord work !
I went swimming today and here's what happened..
I wanted to make ring bubbles like what I did before. So my plan was to lie down on the stairs of a 3 ft deep pool and blow ring bubbles. By the time I was about to lie down (I wasn't really laying on my back yet but my head was kinda looking up. Sorry idk how to explain this) I swallowed my saliva and my right ear suddenly hurts (I forgot to cover my nose. When I swallow my saliva underwater while looking up I usually cover my nose cuz my ears will hurt if I don't. Before I swallowed my saliva my ears didn't hurt yet since I wasn't fully looking up). It was painful at start then it suddenly disappeared after drinking water. I thought it was gone but then I can feel pain in my ear everytime I burp and I can also hear a pop sound everytime I swallow my saliva. Can somebody pls tell me what's wrong with me?
Im so sorry if you don't understand me. Feel free to ask me if you find something confusing about what I said. Im freakin out rn tho so someone pls help.
I've been doing this since I was a kid, and just learned what it's called today. I'm now 24 😂
I'm afraid to try Jaw Wriggle. I might stuck my jaw open. TMJ is so painful and uncomfortable.
Thanks, but the background music is too loud
sir,
why when my head is facing down it can't equalize???
The first method of unclogging my left ear made such a loud sound that it startled me. lmao
It worked though, I can now hear out of both ears correctly. Thanks.
it's my left ear too 😭😭😭
I can’t hear a thing, and I tried all of the techniques.
Should there be a spontaneous popping sound, or should I try to pop it after doing the Valsalva maneuver?
There should be a spontaneous popping sound in one ear, and if you continue in the other ear after. Yawn afterwards.
❤
I do this everytime, didn't know it had a scientific side to it
Is it strange that my ears get blocked during sleep? :/ I wake up some mornings unable to hear out of one or, if i'm having an unlucky day, both ears.
Same here did you find any solution please share.
Same has happened with me and but I went to the hospital now I feel some relief
Lol XD same happens with me ,I wake up and my right ear is always blocked, I tried everything they told but nothing worked so what I did was put a little water in my ear and then put my finger in and rubbed it ,idk why I did it but it did work😂, I probably think it is not good for my ear but it did work
@@KD8929 hello sir same happens with me since 15 months...and my treatment is going form 12 months but no relief in my ears...plz tell me how you get rid of this problem...i m very disappointed due to this disease
@@RajeshKumar-xm9jp you need not to be disappointed for this just do valsava technique slowly.
I did the valsalva maneuver and now my ear is blocked.
how to get the otovent?
Nia Azzahra If you’re in Malaysia or neighbouring countries, you can get it online from mymuna.com. Or just google Otovent.
Can eustian tube dysfunction causes ringing ear ?
Hi, may i ask if you have ringing in ears now? Im suffering from same😢
thank you sir. but, i have another problem with my ears, i have a blockage in my ears due to cold and i can hear the fluid moving inside ears, by doing valsalva it create more blockage and i can hear hardly a bit. so, please what should i do now. pls reply
ISt clean nose and then try valsalva ❤️
@@hamid11223 thank you.
@@ahadayle8809 now how are you your ear is open ?
Doesn’t work for me, I am told not to put too much pressure, but then I can’t unclog my ears.
Imagine actually doing all of these on an airplane... Haha!
Um I used this but my ear is still pressured
i have a flu and i tried these methods yet it did not work! i dont have wax clog either!
Same literary just made my other ear blocked, THANKS DOC!!
these techniques wouldn't work for a flu or a cold... because it's not a problem of negative air pressure but actual fluid or mucus blocking your eustachian tube. so what you basically did was push mucus up further to your middle ear. lol
@@silverdawn813 That explains why I have to take nasonex!
I tried the Valsalva and it worked on my left ear then the right one got blocked. :|
Unfortunately, none if these techniques worked for me. The first one, valsalva maneuver, was very uncomfortable. Releasing the pressure through my ears felt like my eardrums were going to "explode". I was afraid I might damage them or something so, I stopped after two attempts..
now or never exactly, i dont understand why
Never do the valsava maneuver too hard, give it a few attempts. If it not works, try a different method.
same im thinking if i blow too hard my ear drum is like gonna explode
because u are doing it wrong, u dont ramp up the pressure until its high, u maintain constant comfortable pressure
Dear Doctor! What tools do you use for Otovent ?..where to buy them
Vladislav Roytape You can get it online. Just google Otovent
esto sirve cuando hay moco en oido medio???
Now I cant hear. What does that mean? (wax in ears?)
+khloe38 Okay...I yawned and Now I can hear again.
+khloe38 You just pushed to much air in your middle ear, resulting in a too high air pressure(it's the opposite of what you feel in the plane)
can you help me guys my ears it feels hurt i can't hear it properly and when i whistle i hear something deep sound but i feel dizziness so help me how to aid this my ears
See a Dr
How are you now?
@@bhasithavanneti4803 well it's fine dr said i'm inborn hearing loss when someone talking i feel like nothing normal voice or whisper i can't hear it but loud sounds i her it dr said use hearing aid. last year my hearing aid destroy and gone no sounds but there is another way i can use sign language and writing down some note if they don't know how to sign language
thanks
@@majorgeneralmalaise
something came out in my eyes when i tried to do the first one 😭😭😭
Me too. Air came out from my eye tear glands
When i heard a pop. it hurts :( what does it mean?
you ma have an ear infection or worse...don't push too much/
try cleaning your eaars with alcohol or peroxide a few times a week to kill any bacteria
Chubby panda10 go see a doctor too
Just came back from flight and heard the airline management telling me my ear block caused by pressure imbalance is going to be fixed by "natural air". I was like wtf and told them I will report to the medical authority. I was clearly taken aback by redundant medical knowledge of air hostesses. I guess that's why they don't make good nurses.
Anyways I contacted one health department which was the only one there and told them about my problem. They carefully applied this maneuver and I felt like both my ears were cleared. That's natural recovery by anti medicinal techniques not some natural air shit that will fix problems like this. Even in old ages, people did practices to perform treatment different from doing nothing aka natural air method. They even assigned some tablet description with it which I won't use because of high medicine costs.
O for god sake increase the volume - how on earth anyone who is having blocked ear issue is able to hear this ?
There is subtitles
When doing it, only my right ear pops, this happens every damn week.
and none of this worked.
Maby this will work I usually use this when I'm scuba diving ,pinch your nose blow gently twice and then swallow ,while ur nose is pinched .if only one ear pops like and lets say right ear still closed ,look to the left and try again hope it helps
It just stopped, but thanks, I'll keep that in mind, good sir :)
No problem :-)
@@Joshplv thank you very much sir !! It works for mee !! May God bless you and your family❤. Been having trouble because of my right ear , and tried following the video , but it didn't work , but your tip works !! Thank you again🙏🏻 may you have a wonderful life😊😊
Help so i tried to release the mucus on my nose with close mouth, pinch the other side of the nose then try to blow my nose out but while blowing, my open nose hole close automatically so my LEFT EAR IS CLOGGED now hellpp
How its now?
It worked for me but now when I burp it hurts . Also (I don't know if I'm dillusional) but I think I can't hear as good on the ear :( Pls repsond
Hi, did you get any better?
Strange that my father and I can pop our ears without doing any of these techniques.
Has been very helpful on plane trips, but popping my ears a lot in a short period makes me yawn. I’ve heard some people yawn to pop their ears.
I tried, and tried but none of them worked for me.
you might have wax clogging your ear
So who here has voluntary control of the tubes? No maneuvers needs you can just make them "click" on command and can even do it in quick succession.
me!
im deaf in my right ear and my left ear is clogged from a cold right now >:( I can bearly hear anything at all, and nothing works!
Ohshag Hennasy ur my brother
I tried the valsalva, but only my left gets an air pop
same wtf
mine only right ear
Ears get blocked/clogged after exercising
Continue exercise
Wait so if you have wax clog these methods don't work? Danggg
@ 0:36
valsalva maneuver is increase my tinnitus 😭what can i do for it any one help me
Hey yohesh , same here , did you find any relief?
@@bhasithavanneti4803 no
@@yoheshgaming2722 how do you deal with it? Have you met any doctor?
@@bhasithavanneti4803 now your tinnitus is low or vanish?
Can anyone else do this hands free?
Tried all, none worked. Left ear still plugged and hurts like hell.
Hey how are you now
@@King-hb7yk I'm better thanks for asking. Being sick sucks. For me it usually only happens every few years though luckily.
@@LindonSlaght Did it fix itself?
@@RealFishGames yes it did. If you have the same issue right now, try this video, if that doesn't work trust me it'll go away. It'll hurt like hell but it's not permanent.
@@LindonSlaght So it actually did fix itself indeed but now I have low-volume tinnitus in my right ear, I don't really mind it though cause I'm more grateful that I can finally hear in both ears.
Did not work for me ..... any of them. :(
How's the ear now Austinis ?
My lift ear blocked for 4 months I ho to the doctor he gave nasel spry & pills So I trid the first 1 valsva and I hear the sound pop my lift ear still blocked but my right ear every time I eat I just feel there a brusher in my right ear littel pain what that mean ?
Pop a bottle of beer and down it in one go . When you burp out the gas , both the ears will pop . Cheers .
none of it worked
whats the point of having audio if u can barely hear it
frenzel ftw
u shoulda explained how we get blocked ears so we wont get it again
Nope didn't work.
Danny Vasquez my left ear is blocked....
and it didnt work
The jaw wiggle worked, what the hell
No help at all :(
Thank you!