About cervicogenic headache

  Mr. Zhang from Tuxi Town, Dazhou County, Dazhou, is a voluntarily worker. 10 years ago, he developed headache with neck and shoulder pain, which could be relieved after rest and was not taken seriously. In the past 4 years, his headache has gradually worsened, and the pain is not obvious, but it is painful during the day and night. The pain was painful during the day and night, and he had been taking painkillers for a long time to maintain his headache. The medicine boxes of all sizes at home were piled up into a mountain, but his condition kept recurring. Due to the serious development of the disease, resulting in headache can not speak, several days did not eat normally, emaciated face, after relatives introduced to understand, came to our hospital to receive treatment. After examination, Mr. Zhang was found to have multiple pressure points in his neck and head, and the MRI of cervical spine showed that the cervical disc was herniated, thus compressing the nerve root and causing headache. Therefore, he was diagnosed with “cervicogenic headache”.  What is cervicogenic headache?  As we all know, there are many causes of headaches, the most common ones are vascular, functional and neurological headaches, including those caused by some intracranial lesions. The so-called cervicogenic headaches are mainly headaches caused by cervical spine lesions, including headaches caused by cervical and shoulder disc herniation, spinal stenosis, cervical muscle strain, including muscle spasm, as well as pain caused by the greater occipital nerve, the lesser occipital nerve, including these. The main symptom of cervicogenic pain is the headache caused by the change of neck activity. In addition to the headache, it is also accompanied by stiffness of the neck and difficulty in moving, and some patients also have some symptoms of the upper limbs and some symptoms of the lower limbs.