can cervical spine degeneration causes headaches?
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Cervicogenic headaches are headaches which result from spinal problems in the neck, such as disc degeneration or prolapse, or facet joint arthritis. 'Cervico-' means neck, and '-genic' means origin. Cervicogenic headaches are quite common and under-recognised.
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Typically, people who have cervicogenic headaches experience a headache accompanied by neck pain and stiffness. Certain neck movements can provoke cervicogenic headaches. In most cases, cervicogenic headaches develop on one side of the head, starting from the back of the head and neck and radiating toward the front.
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Cervical headaches are often associated with neck pain and stiffness. They may be aggravated by neck and head movements. There may be a feeling of light headedness, dizziness, ringing in the ear and nausea. An inability to concentrate, impaired normal functioning and depression may also be reported.
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Pinched nerves in the cervical spine can cause neck pain, tingling, and numbness that radiates to the shoulders, arms and hands. The pain may become worse when you move your neck, cough, or laugh. Your neck muscles may spasm. Your arms may feel weak.
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However, with severe degenerative disc disease, the normal stability of a spine can become lax and lead to abnormal weakness in certain areas. Instability can both lead to pain as well as injury to the spinal cord or spinal nerves, both of which can cause neurological symptoms.
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Side Effects: Chronic headaches, neck and chest pain.
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Inflammation in your spine sends signals to the brain that there is some sort of pain in your neck and this has an affect on the blood supply that goes to your brain. This, in turn, can cause arthritis head pain or arthritis headaches. So, in reality, your head pain is caused by the arthritis in your neck.
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Symptoms such as severe neck pain, shoulder pain, numbness, headache, dizziness, and nausea ensue as a result of the condition. The results of the research demonstrates that acupuncture combined with moxibustion is effective for the relief of cervical syndrome.
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Examples of common conditions causing neck pain are degenerative disc disease, neck strain, osteoarthritis, cervical spondylosis, spinal stenosis, poor posture, neck injury such as in whiplash, a herniated disc, or a pinched nerve (cervical radiculopathy).
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The diagnosis of cervicogenic dizziness can be made if the patients suffer from dizziness and dysequilibrium that appears to come from neck pain caused by cervical disc disease and degenerative arthritis.
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An unstable vertebra can shift or dislocate over time and eventually press on the spinal cord and nerve roots. When this happens, you may have numbness and tingling around the neck that radiates up the back of the head. This is in addition to joint pain, stiffness, and swelling.
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The motor symptoms may outlast a headache. Severe attacks can rarely cause permanent brain injury, cerebral atrophy, infarction, cognitive decline, and death. Seizures independent of hemiplegic migraine attacks have been reported in some patients with FHM, with higher rates in patients with FHM2.
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Poor posture: If you tend to slouch when you sit or stand, that can strain the muscles in the back of your head, upper back, neck, and jaw. It also can put pressure on the nerves in those areas. As a result, poor posture can cause tension headaches and pain in the back of your head.
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Rarely, some people with upper cervical disorders may experience a set of symptoms called vertebrobasilar ischemia, which occurs when a change in head position puts pressure on cranial arteries and cuts off the blood supply to the head. This results in weakness, confusion, light-headedness, and feeling faint.
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A degenerating spinal disc does not always lead to pain or other symptoms. Because the disc itself has very little innervation, pain usually occurs when the degenerating disc affects other structures in the spine (such as muscles, joint, or nerve roots).
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In the upper cervical spine (C0-C2), this can cause symptoms such as nerve and tendon irritation and vertebrobasilar insufficiency with associated vertigo, tinnitus, dizziness, facial pain, arm pain, migraine headaches, and vision problems.
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Cervicogenic headaches can also cause symptoms similar to migraine headaches, such as light sensitivity, noise sensitivity, blurry vision, and an upset stomach.