![]() Upper cervical spinal cord (and its connections to the trigeminal nerve).Glossopharyngeal, vagus, spinal accessory, and hypoglossal, all of which are contained at some point in the carotid sheath.C2 nerve root which becomes the greater and lesser occipital nerves.The following nerve or nerve centers run within a few millimeters of the atlas and axis vertebrae: The person is now suffering from “neurologic-like” symptoms. When there is compression there can be symptomology. When the Atlas or C1 starts “wandering” out of place it takes the carotid sheath with it, stretching the arteries, veins, and the glossopharyngeal nerve and vagus nerve or compressing the arteries, veins, glossopharyngeal nerve, and vagus nerve. Here we see that the carotid sheath and all its vital structures lay on top of the C1 Atlas. What are we seeing in this image? A visual description of how compression in the cervical spine can lead to problems of cervical spine neurology The nervous tissue in the spinal cord and brain is part of the central nervous system, and the rest of the nervous tissue that goes to the organs and tissues of the body comprises the peripheral nervous system. The nervous system tracts that go up the spinal cord to the brain are called ascending tracts and those that go down, descending tracts. That plan is then sent to the rest of the body through nerve fibers that are called efferents. After the brain analyzes the received information, it comes up with a plan. The nerve impulses that relay sensory information from the peripheral nervous system to the brain or central nervous system are called afferents or afferent nerve fibers. It is a conduit as nerve tracts from the whole body, including the internal organs and extremities, go to the brain and from the brain and receive orders. The neck is a conduit and a relay station for the nervous system. Emotional stress and anxiety (neurologic-like and psychiatric-like). ![]() Post-concussion syndrome, migraine headaches.Cervically Mediated Autonomic Symptoms (Barré-Liéou syndrome).Headache and Craniofacial Pain Syndromes.In this article, we will focus on some of these symptoms and conditions including: We have seen many of these patients over the years. Imagine if you can’t swallow or your balance is so off that you look like a drunk when you walk or even worse, you fall and faint spontaneously to the ground for no apparent reason. One of the central themes found over and over in this website is that people can have severe and sometimes dangerous symptoms (i.e., drop attacks), and no diagnosis is found as to what is causing them. Because it is the part of the body with the most mobility but least stability, it is easily injured. The place where this electric grid gets blocked the most is in the upper cervical spine. This occurs because the whole electric grid of the human body has to pass through the neck to go to and from the central processing stations in the brainstem and brain to get to the extremities and organs. Everything from symptoms in the leg to whole body neuropathy to diffuse body pain can come from cervical instability in the neck. The host of symptoms that cervical instability causes are immense. Patients with whiplash injury, hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type III, Positional Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), and mast cell activation symptoms should be of particular interest to doctors trying to understand their patient’s situation. The contribution of the dense neurologic anatomy of the cervical spine region, specifically the upper segments, in the setting of undiagnosed or unrecognized cervical instability is underappreciated for its role in the development of cranial nerve and autonomically mediated syndromes. The susceptibility of the cervical spine to syndromes such as radiculopathy, cervicogenic headache, and myelopathy is well known. In essence, the neurology of cervical spine instability. This article is about understanding some of the neurologic-like symptoms that you may be suffering from and tracing the origins of these problems to compression of the nerves, veins, arteries, and the spinal cord by the bones of the neck.
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