Symptoms and causes of cervicogenic tinnitus?

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Sometimes there is no sound outside, but there is always a sound in the ear. This is tinnitus. Tinnitus is a symptom of auditory dysfunction. It is an illusion of human auditory organs to sounds or fictitious sounds, such as buzzing, cicadas, or sounds like bells, insects, birds, running water, wind, etc. Symptoms and causes of cervicogenic tinnitus? Let's talk about it

Symptoms and causes of cervicogenic tinnitus?

The tinnitus caused by acute and chronic cervical injury is called cervicogenic tinnitus or cervicogenic tinnitus. Different from the general tinnitus, the tinnitus caused by acute injury of cervical vertebra has a higher tone, which belongs to sensorineural tinnitus. It is often accompanied by severe hearing loss, intermittent attack, dizziness and headache; The tinnitus caused by chronic cervical injury is usually persistent, sometimes mild and sometimes severe, and then severe hearing, resulting in severe deafness.

The patients with cervicogenic tinnitus often have dizziness, headache, and discomfort such as acid, pain and distension in the neck, and the neck movement is limited. Physical examination showed that the neck was lowered or the extension was limited, C2 spinous process was slanted or backward, paravertebral tenderness and tinnitus were on the same side.

X-ray showed atlantoaxial subluxation, acute and chronic cervical injury and degenerative changes, resulting in atlantoaxial subluxation, vertebral artery insufficiency, labyrinthine artery insufficiency, vestibular extralymphatic and cochlear endolymphatic hydrops, which caused the weak sound wave vibration that could not be felt before, and caused the larger vibration of the hydroped lymph, stimulating the organ of Corti in a highly sensitive state, Send out the wrong nerve impulse, through the cochlear nerve into the brain auditory center, produce tinnitus.

matters needing attention

1. Good posture. The occurrence of cervical spondylosis lies in the acute and chronic injury or degenerative changes of the cervical spine. Therefore, in daily life, we should pay attention to reasonable posture to reduce the damage to the cervical spine. 2. Keep warm. Body cold, local blood circulation is not smooth, easy to accumulate the body's metabolic waste, cause pain. 3. Eat a balanced diet to avoid obesity. Weight obesity, big belly, which undoubtedly increased the burden of the spine, for the occurrence of cervical spondylosis buried a hidden danger.