The Epley Maneuver is not traumatic except for allowing the therapist to move your body in unusual positions. It is like those marble mazes that have a knob on two sides. the therapist is trying to get the crystals (marble) to follow an path deep inside the ear. They can not see this path so they learn the moves to blindly try to move the crystals.

You can watch a YouTube of the Epley Maneuver being done.

Here is a great article about the chair developed to make this treatment easier to do. http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com...cle%202006.pdf

I am glad I don't deal with this symptom but if I did, I had access to one of the best practitioners. A PT named Judy worked at my PT's clinic. Judy worked with Dr Epley in Portland, OR as he was researching and developing the Maneuver. My PT says that Judy knows the Maneuver upside down and backwards. LOL Judy has since moved from Boise back to Portland .

If you have access to a Epley specialist, it is worth a try.

In the above article there is an interesting quote from Dr Epley,

<In a pause between patients, Epley reflected on the reasons other doctors refused to accept his findings for so many years.
“If I look back at medical school, much of it was misinformation,” he said.
“Physicians learn to just do the routine, to do the accepted things — don’t go too far out."
“They’ve got so much to lose if they stick their neck out.”>

Sounds like a doctor who understands the reason PCS is so misunderstood.