Neck movement headache may be tension headache, neck and shoulder syndrome, cervical disc herniation and other reasons.
1. Tension headache: Tension headache is caused by persistent contraction of head and neck muscles, patients will feel tightness, stiffness and pain in the head and neck, most often seen in the same position for a long time, suddenly turn the neck.
2. Cervical-shoulder syndrome: Cervical-shoulder syndrome is based on degenerative changes in the cervical vertebrae or chronic strain injury caused by neck, shoulder and arm pain, accompanied by cervical vertebral artery, sympathetic nerve involvement will show some systemic symptoms, such as headache, dizziness, the patient may have a headache when the neck movement symptoms.
3. Cervical disc herniation: patients with cervical disc herniation, due to twisting the neck of the protruding disc will produce pressure on the local nerve root, thus stimulating the nerve root, resulting in pain in the neck and head, and will show the symptoms of headache when the neck moves.
Neck movement headache causes more, specific to go to the hospital for examination, clear cause after targeted treatment.