Neck Center - Neurologic skin sensations
Skin Pain, Allodynia, and Hot or Cold Skin: Could Cervical Instability Be a Contributing Factor?
Ross Hauser, MD People contact our office with unusual and distressing skin symptoms: skin that hurts when lightly touched, burning or tingling, unexplained itching, abnormal sweating, flushing, or one side of the body feeling hotter or colder than the other. These symptoms may occur alongside neck pain, headaches, dizziness, brain […]
Tactile hallucinations and Formication: Strange skin sensations including insects crawling on your skin
Ross Hauser, MD Formication is the sensation that insects are crawling on or under the skin when no insect is present. The word comes from formica, the Latin word for ant. Some people describe prickling, buzzing, stinging, moving clothing, water running over the skin, or an unexplained hot or cold […]
Brachioradial Pruritus – Neuropathic itch
Ross Hauser, MD Patients with brachioradial pruritus (BRP) often describe an itch that is difficult for people who have never experienced it to understand. This may not be a mild irritation. It can be an intense, burning, stinging, or relentless itch involving the forearms and sometimes extending into the upper […]
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, […]