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Symptoms of Atlantoaxial Instability

Published: 29 September 2018
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HEADACHES:

  • Suboccipital Headaches

FACIAL PAIN/NERVE DEFICITS: 

NECK/BACK PROBLEMS:

  • Neck pain
  • Neck stiffness
  • Neck spasms
  • Limited neck mobility
  • Torticollis (head tilt)
  • Odontoid fractures
  • Cervical Vertigo

EQUILIBRIUM/BALANCE PROBLEMS:

  • Balance impairment
  • Unsteady gait
  • Incoordination
  • Clumsiness
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo

CARDIO-RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS:

  • Autonomic Hyperreflexia
  • Dysphagia (trouble swallowing)
  • Hyperactive pharyngeal (gag) reflex
  • Drop attacks
  • Respiratory distress/failure

COGNITIVE PROBLEMS:

  • Fatigability

EYE/VISION PROBLEMS:

  • Blurred vision

EAR/HEARING PROBLEMS:

  • Tinnitis (ringing in the ears)
  • Fullness in the ears

SENSORY PROBLEMS (touch, taste, smell):

  • Sensory deficits

PROBLEMS WITH VOICE/SPEECH:

  • Hoarseness
  • Voice paralysis (full or partial)

PROBLEMS WITH EXTREMITIES:

  • Weakness and/or cramping in muscles of arms, shoulders, hands, or legs.
  • Tingling and/or numbness of arms, shoulders, or hands
  • Loss of sensation in feet
  • Burning pain that spreads to the arms, buttocks, or down into the legs (Sciatica)
  • Loss of fine motor skills (hand coordination)
  • Paraplegia (rare)
  • Hemiplegia (rare)
  • Quadriplegia (rare)

OTHER PHYSICAL PROBLEMS:

  • Bladder and bowel dysfunction
  • Other changes

Symptoms of Craniocervical Instability

Published: 25 September 2018
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HEADACHES:

FACIAL PAIN/NERVE DEFICITS:

NECK PROBLEMS:

  • Heavy head sensation (sensation of the head being too heavy for the neck to hold up)
  • Neck pain
  • Neck spasms (often severe)

EQUILIBRIUM/BALANCE PROBLEMS:

  • Balance impairment
  • Unsteady gait
  • Incoordination
  • Clumsiness
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo

CARDIO-RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS:

EYE/VISION PROBLEMS:

EAR/HEARING PROBLEMS:

  • Tinnitus (ringing in ears)
  • Hearing loss

OTHER PHYSICAL PROBLEMS:

  • Non epiform seizures
  • Paralysis (severe cases)

Basilar Impression

Published: 12 December 2017
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A congenital or aquired, cranio-cervical junction abnormality where the tip of the 2nd cervical (axis, odontoid process) vertebra is displaced upward and posteriorly (backward) into the intracranial space projecting above the foramen magnum. Basilar Impression is caused by this deformation resulting from softening of the bone (as opposed to Basilar Invagnation wherein the bone is normal).  Basilar Invagnation and Basilar Impression both can cause potential compression of the brainstem.

 

 

Craniocervical Instability [CCI]

Published: 7 October 2017
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A structural defect and vertical hypermobility (back and forth sliding) of the craniocervical junction (interface between the occipital bone and the 1st and 2nd vertebrae) which can lead to a deformation of the brain stem, upper spinal cord and cerebellum (and associated neurological symptoms) due to compression.


Etiological Co-factors: Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue (HDCT), such as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).

Basilar Invagination [BI]

Published: 26 March 2016
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A congenital or aquired, cranio-cervical junction abnormality involving cranial settling, where the tip of the 2nd cervical vertebra (axis, odontoid process) is displaced upward and posteriorly (backward) into the intracranial space projecting above the foramen magnum.  Basilar Invagnation is caused by this deformation with normal bone (as opposed to Basilar Impression that results from softening of the bone).  Basilar Invagnation and Basilar Impression both can cause potential compression of the brainstem.

 

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