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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)

Symptoms of Intracranial Hypertension

Published: 3 August 2018
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HEADACHES:

  • Positional Headache – Pressure headaches that are worse when laying down, and relieved from being upright. Patients often report falling asleep and waking up in the middle of the night with a pressure headache.
  • Headache that originates behind the eyes, or (often feeling much like a sinus headache)

 

NECK PROBLEMS:

  • Neck pain/stiffness
  • Interscapular (between the shoulder blades) pain/stiffness

 

EQUILIBRIUM/BALANCE PROBLEMS:

 

COGNITIVE PROBLEMS:

  • Mild Aphasia (generally anomic or primary progressive)
  • Memory problems (usually short term)
  • Brain Fog

 

EYE/VISION PROBLEMS:

  • Blurred vision
  • Dimmed vision
  • Double vision (diplopia from dysfunction of 6th cranial nerve)
  • Poor or decreased peripheral vision
  • Flickers/flashes of light (photopsia)
  • Moments of occasional blindness
  • Permanent blindness

 

EAR/HEARING PROBLEMS:

 

OTHER PHYSICAL PROBLEMS:

 

Symptoms of Intracranial Hypotension

Published: 20 July 2018
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HEADACHES:

  • Orthostatic Headaches – Pressure headaches that are worse when upright (or after being upright for a period of time), and relieved from laying down. Headaches typically start within 15 minutes of sitting or standing up, and get a measure of relief after lying down for 30 minutes. However, when it comes to cerebrospinal fluid leaks (the most common cause of Intracranial Hypotension), the orthostatic component varies significantly on how long the leak has been present. When a leak first begins, the loss of intracranial pressure has not yet been fully established, and headaches tend to be non-positional. As the leak continues and the intracranial pressure continues to drop, the positional element usually becomes more noticeable. Leaks that have been leaking for a long period of time, tend to have a delayed orthostatic headaches (so the orthostatic feature is easy to miss) or the positional aspect may seem to disappear – headaches take hours to worsen or improve with change of position. They will often wake up in the morning with no headache and get one later in the day when they have spent hours being upright. Likewise, it takes longer to get relief from being supine.

NECK/BACK PROBLEMS:

  • Neck pain/stiffness
  • Interscapular (between the shoulder blades)

EQUILIBRIUM/BALANCE PROBLEMS:

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

COGNITIVE PROBLEMS:

EYE/VISION PROBLEMS:

  • Sensitivity to light
  • Double vision
  • Nystagmus

EAR/HEARING PROBLEMS:

  • Tinnitis (ringing in the ears)
  • Changes in hearing (muffled sound)
  • Sensitivity to sound(s)

SENSORY PROBLEMS (touch, taste, smell):

  • Metallic taste (leaks from nose)

PROBLEMS WITH EXTREMITIES:

  • Movement disorders, such as chorea or Parkinsonism
  • Tremors
  • Slow movement
  • Stiffness of extremities

Symptoms of Tethered Cord

Published: 16 July 2018
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BACK PAIN:

  • Lower back pain, especially when standing, walking or being active

 

PROBLEMS WITH EXTREMITIES:

  • Leg pain
  • Numbness in lower legs/feet (tingling/pins-and-needles sensation)
  • Gait Disturbance
  • History of growing pains
  • History of heel or toe walking as a child
  • High arches

 

INCONTINENCE ISSUES:

  • Urinary Dysfunction
    • Urgency
    • Frequency
    • Incontinence
    • Nocturia (waking up to urinate more than 1x per night)
    • Trouble emptying bladder
    • Hesitancy (trouble starting urinary stream)

 

  • Bowel Dysfunction
    • Frequent constipation
    • Frequent diarrhea
    • Occasional bowel incontinence

 

OTHER PHYSICAL PROBLEMS:

  • Frequent UTIs (Urinary Tract Infections) or having the sensation of a UTI
  • Decreased sensation in the pelvic area
  • Sexual Dysfunction
    • Decreased sexual interest
    • Difficulty reaching orgasm

 

Axon Retraction Bulb

Published: 12 December 2017
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When axons  are stretched, lesioned, or otherwise damaged, the the tips of themselves swell, break, shear off, and/or recoil into globoid, bulbous shapes that appear on microscopic examination of cells.

autonomic

Published: 20 November 2017
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Actions that occur in the body involuntarily and without conscious effort – controlled by the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) that regulates such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, digestion, metabolism, etc.

Occipital Headache

Published: 8 October 2017
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Headaches that start in the back of the skull and upper neck; usually spurred (or increase in intensity) by valsalva maneuvers, such as: coughing, sneezing, heaving, laughing, etc.

brain fog

Published: 9 August 2016
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Problems in thinking or concentration. Different from the ADHD symptoms we experience, where we think of too many things and have a hard time keeping our thoughts on just one. Brain fog occurs when you feel as though time has lapsed and you have not been able to think about anything (like your brain is foggy). Brain fog can be caused by traumatic brain injuries (TBI), including Chiari Malformations, but there are other causes common to us: the influence of anesthesia or many of the medications we take to control our pain/spasms; additionally a diet high in sugar/carbohydrates is known to cause brain fog.

Blepharospasms

Published: 17 July 2016
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Abnormal or involuntary spasms of the eye.

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