Though YouTube shouldn't exactly be your most trusted source of medical advice, in at least one case, videos on the site can help people manage a common form of vertigo without having to see a doctor, according to researchers from the American Academy of Neurology.
However, as is the case with pretty much any aggregator on the Internet (think Wikipedia), one should proceed with a healthy dose of caution, because just over half the videos are accurate -- which means, of course, that the others aren't.
Researchers say that 64 percent of YouTube videos showing the Epley maneuver are accurate.
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The researchers who reviewed YouTube videos of the Epley maneuver, which can help treat benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, found that, fortunately, the most viewed video (and perhaps the most reliable) was produced by the Academy of Neurology itself, but that only 64 percent (21 out of 33 videos) are actually accurate. They published their findings in the journal Neurology.
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