Cervicogenic Dizziness
Cervicogenic dizziness is common in patients who are reporting chronic neck pain and dysfunction, with a history of head trauma, whiplash, concussion or inner ear trauma. They also report dizziness and disequilibrium that are associated with neck movements. The highly concentrated feedback receptors (muscle spindles) in the zygapophyseal joints and uncovertebral joints of the cervical spine become hypersensitive and over-stimulated. This causes the brain to receive an influx of feedback, with particular overload in information to the trigeminal nucleus, a dizziness centre of the brain. This overwhelming information to the brain, causes a loss of proprioceptive awareness for neck-eye coordination, thus generating dizziness, nausea, and disorientation.
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