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Symptoms linked with instabilities of the head-neck-joint
Patients with an instability at the head-neck-joint can show mainly the following symptoms:
- Strong headaches, especially at the occiput (back of the head), often described as hauling or burning
- attention disorders
- Memory disorders, Weakness of memory
- palsy
- prickling in face and/or extremities
- vertigo
- balance disorders, stumbling, problems coordinating walking, problems of coordination of hands and arms
- visual problems (seeing stars, reduction of the visual field)
- tinnitus
- pain in the following areas: the mandibular articulations, ears, and eyes
- Often the symptoms are accompanied by severe drowsiness / stupor and agitation, vegetative faults, esp. of the cardio-vascular system: unsteady erratic pulse, tachycardia,
- In some cases: vigilance is (extremely) reduced, consciousness disorders (patients tell, they are not really awake, like a hit fly, no more in this world living, in a diffuse world, anything is unreal, I am living like in a dream, ...) - reaching from fatigue over somnolence to comatose states.
- disturbed, changed or reduced self-perception
- breathing disorders, autoregulation of breathing defective
- nightly scaring (waking up, not able to breath, to see, to move, in some cases completely blindness (for a period of time) - this sometimes with great anxiety to die
- Mostly this disorders are not provocable, because patients may not actively reduce the tonus of the neck muscles in such a manner that instability symptoms get visible. Therefore x-raying will be almost without any success.
Neurosurgeon tell that these instabilities, for example loose C1-vertebra, that can move ventral and either compress the basilar artery, the vertebral arteries or irritate the brain steem.
But to prove such instabilities, patients should be narcotised first. Mostly only in total relaxation state these instabilities can be diagnosed.