Does cervical vertebra cause headache symptom?

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Headache is one of the most common symptoms in clinic. The incidence rate is high. Almost 90% of the population have headache in their lives. Some people say headache is a common disease after cold. It is caused by head nerve or vascular disease. Does cervical vertebra cause headache symptom? I'd like to share my views with you.

Does cervical vertebra cause headache symptom?

Most headaches result from the cervical spine. In the past, people often thought that headache was caused by problems in the nerves and blood vessels of the head, but did not pay attention to the role of the neck. Therefore, the treatment of headache was "treating the head, and treating the feet with foot pain", such as taking medicine or acupuncture, physiotherapy, massage, oral pain tablets, etc. in the place of head pain. And the treatment effect of these methods is often not satisfactory, and eventually the situation of "patients have a headache, doctors also have a headache" is formed.

What are the characteristics of cervicogenic headache. Cervicogenic headache is caused by cervical spondylosis and acute and chronic cervical injury, which is related to cervical nerve stimulation. Cervicogenic headache patients with neck stiffness, mobility is not flexible, head or neck trauma in general. Headache is characterized by repeated dull or sore pain in the occipital region, the top of the head, the temple, the forehead or around the orbit, accompanied by pain in the upper part of the neck. During the examination, there was a lot of pressing pain around the neck.

Why does headache have something to do with neck. Most of the nerves in the head come from the neck. Nerve from the spinal cord after walking up to the head, on the way through a lot of bone gaps and muscles. If the neck muscle or bone lesions, such as cervical degenerative, neck muscle trauma, nerves passing here will be affected, abnormal changes, and these abnormal changes will lead to headache.

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Patients usually pay more attention to keep the cervical spine relaxed, if the neck and shoulder has been in a tense state, the cervical spine will feel uncomfortable, headache symptoms will be more serious. In addition, avoid working in one position for a long time.