Neck Is Out: Causes Dizziness

By Zane Durant * April 5, 2014 * Reno, Nevada Chiropractic

Have you ever had weird tingling in your arm, a strange numbness that happens all of a sudden? Well, it could be a couple of things. If you have shortness of breath, it could be a heart attack, so get your self to the hospital. If there is no shortness of breath, the cause may be a "vertebral subluxation". Basically that means that your neck bone has a pinch and it is sending pain down into your arm. What you need, is an adjustment.

Our heads rest not on our shoulders, it rests on seven small neck bones. When one of these seven bones is out of place, it can cause pain in various parts of your body. This blog entry looks at each part of the neck, and how it can affect your overall health.

The head is made up of several bones. The lowest part of the back of the head is called "the occipital bone". This is the intersection where all the nerves of the spine pass through into the brain. You can imagine this location must be a main source of headaches.

You have lots of nerves running through your spinal column. Your "Great Auricular" nerve passes though the occipital into the next part of the spine.

Your first vertebra is called a "cervical 1 or C1" When the C1 is out of place you can experience dizziness, migraine headaches, pain in the eyes,  tension across the forehead, or at the back of the neck.

If you experience dizziness from a headache, contact a Reno chiropractor.