Is there a relationship between cervical spondylosis and dizziness?

If the vertebral artery stenosis causes dizziness due to insufficient blood supply, it should be permanent dizziness, because the vertebral artery is a bony duct that cannot be blocked from time to time. Dizziness is only a short-term episode.

If you have symptoms of dizziness, you can consult an orthopedic surgeon, and when cervical spondylosis is ruled out, you should also consult a neurologist and an otologist for some tests that are currently feasible. If a problem with the vertebral artery is suspected, the diagnosis and localization can also be confirmed by interventional methods.

In terms of **, once vertebral artery stenosis occurs, blood vessels can be dilated or stent implanted by intervention. Patients with cervical spine instability can undergo cervical spine fusion with full psychological preparation, and the efficacy remains to be further observed.

In daily life and clinical practice, we orthopedic surgeons often encounter some dizzy patients who seek medical treatment as cervical spondylosis. The main symptoms are dizziness accompanied by a sense of rotation, occasional nausea and vomiting, while there is no obvious numbness and pain in both upper limbs, walking is also normal, and a considerable number of patients feel tightness at the base of the neck. The age of onset in this group ranges from about 35 to 60 years, which is a wide range.

Is dizziness due to cervical spondylosis? First of all, let's look at the causes of dizziness, part of which is due to changes in blood circulation in the brain, which causes dizziness and corresponding symptoms, which have a certain relationship with the degree of hardening of blood vessels. Abnormalities in brain metabolism can also cause dizziness, and of course, structural changes, such as vascular malformations, tumor formation, etc., can cause dizziness and other uncomfortable symptoms.

In the literature, it is believed that 95% of dizziness is due to a dysfunction of the inner ear balance system, which is innervated by the eighth pair of nerves in the brain. There is a noticeable rotation phenomenon at the same time as dizziness, especially when the head is inadvertently turned, the rotation is more severe. The vestibular function of the inner ear is to maintain the balance of the body, and dizziness occurs when there is some reason for the degeneration or inflammation of this part of the system.

Some patients may also experience balance disorders and dizziness during bed rest after surgery.

In orthopedic textbooks, there is a vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis, which is hyperostosis that compresses one or both vertebral arteries, affecting the blood supply to the brain and causing dizziness. The vertebral arteries are part of the blood supply to the brain, and when the cervical spine is unstable, the movement of the skull may cause spasms of the vertebral arteries, resulting in dizziness. Most cases are not entirely due to narrowing of the vertebral arteries.

Ischemia in the brain is associated with degeneration of the entire cerebral arterial system and is associated with systemic arteriosclerosis.

If the dizziness has not been found by multiple examinations, or if a lesion in the cervical spine is found, then cervicogenic dizziness caused by cervical spondylosis should be considered. The vertigo caused by cervical spondylosis mostly belongs to the type of vertebral artery cervical spondylosis, which belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine such as Xiang Bi and vertigo. Patients with vertebral artery cervical spondylosis mostly have a history of long-term desk work, and most of them are people who work with their heads bowed for a long time, play with mobile phones, and play with computers.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that such patients are mostly caused by external evils such as wind, cold and dampness, and the neck may have cold and wind before the onset of the disease. Patients with vertebral artery cervical spondylosis have vertigo in addition to vertigo.

Cervical spondylosis may cause dizziness, and cervical spine lesions compress nerves and may cause dizziness.