Neck Center - Cervical Cranial Instability - Neurology
Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD), Vestibular Dysfunction, and Cervical Instability
Ross Hauser, MD Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness, commonly called PPPD, can feel like rocking, swaying, floating, imbalance, or non-spinning dizziness. Symptoms are often worse when standing, walking, moving the head or body, riding in a vehicle, scrolling on a screen, or entering a visually busy environment such as a supermarket. For […]
Costen’s Syndrome: TMJ, Ear Symptoms, and the Possible Cervical Spine Connection
Ross Hauser, MD Costen’s syndrome is an older term for a group of jaw, ear, head, and facial symptoms historically attributed to dysfunction of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). A patient may have jaw pain or clicking together with tinnitus, ear fullness, ear pain, dizziness, headache, facial pain, or a change […]
Empty nose syndrome
Ross Hauser, MD I am going to start this article surrounding research and treatments of Empty nose syndrome with a patient’s story here at the Hauser Neck Center at Caring Medical. Then we will discuss how Empty nose syndrome remains a medical enigma and describe possible paths of treatments. Many people […]
Excessive sweating – Hyperhidrosis – caused by cervical disc herniation, cervical spine injury, or cervical spine surgery
Ross Hauser, MD A patient will often contact us to say that they have a problem with sweating. Their clothes are soaked, and they wake up in the middle of the night, soaked. They are constantly and continually sweating. They have a diagnosis of hyperhidrosis, or they sweat a lot, […]
The laughing headache
The laughing headache In many patients, laughing can trigger a secondary cough headache. Some in the medical community also designate this situation as a “laughing headache.” A February 2022 paper (1) in the journal Cureus presented a case of a young student whose laughing triggered his headaches. During these headaches, […]
Thermoregulatory instability – Neck pain and inability to maintain consistent body temperature
Ross Hauser, MD At our center, we see many people with many conditions and symptoms of a neurologic-like nature. The common link that we see in our patients is the link of craniocervical instability and cervical spine degenerative disease and instability. If you are reading this article it is likely […]