@otavares Oly, I forgot to respond to your question about dizziness. I did experience dizziness and vertigo where the world appeared to be spinning around me, and that was because of my cervical spine issues.

When you have cervical spine issues, it tends to cause muscle spasms, and I also had thoracic outlet syndrome which s a condition that makes one side of my neck tighter than the other. What was happening was a spasm was rotating and tilting my C1 & C2 vertebra by themselves without me turning my head. This causes the vertebral arteries inside the bones to be stretched, and that is part of the blood supply to the brain. It was with my vertebrae rotated, I looked upward at birds flying overhead, and it started vertigo by kinking the stretched arteries. I actually lost my balance and fell backward. After I got myself inside, I called my physical therapist and she gave me some things to do to calm it down before I could get in to see her.

A physical therapist can get the spine better aligned by dealing with the muscle spasms and electrical stimulation to disrupt the pain signals. After I had surgery for the spine issues, all of the spasms calmed down. It doesn't just happen anymore, but if I sleep with my neck in an awkward position, it can start a little bit of vertebrae rotating, but not to the same degree. I have not had any more episodes of vertigo.

Are you experiencing balance and dizziness issues with a cervical spine problem?

Jennifer