Cervical spine pain may cause tinnitus.
Cervical pain is mainly caused by cervical spondylosis, cervical spondylosis is divided into many types, if the cervical spondylosis caused local nerve compression, ischemia and other conditions, may cause tinnitus symptoms, such as sympathetic cervical spondylosis, vertebral artery cervical spondylosis.
1. Sympathetic cervical spondylosis: mainly due to cervical intervertebral disc degeneration or segmental instability, thus causing sympathetic nerve dysfunction. Patients often manifest headache, dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, lack of concentration, facial numbness, eye swelling and pain, cold and hot hands and feet, pain and so on.
2. Vertebral artery-type cervical spondylosis: mainly due to cervical vertebral osteophytes, squeezing the cervical vertebral artery, resulting in impaired blood circulation, which causes local tissue ischemia and hypoxia, the nerves do not get nutrients, which leads to the onset of the disease. Patients often manifested as head and neck pain, dizziness, tinnitus, memory loss, blurred vision, neurasthenia, insomnia and so on.
Therefore, cervical spine pain may cause tinnitus symptoms if it is a neck disease that compresses the nerves. However, if the cervical pain is caused by trauma, exertion, etc., it usually does not cause tinnitus.