Neck Center - Tinnitus
Internal Jugular Vein Compression and Stenosis: Symptoms, Head Position, and New Research
Ross Hauser, MD. Pressure headaches, pulsatile tinnitus, visual disturbances, dizziness, and brain fog can lead to a long search for answers. Some people are eventually told that an internal jugular vein is narrowed or compressed. Others notice that symptoms change when they turn their head, look down, or change body […]
Tinnitus, cervical spine instability, and neck pain
Ross Hauser, MD Tinnitus is the perception of sound when no external sound is present. People may describe ringing, buzzing, humming, clicking, hissing, roaring, or a rhythmic pulse. The symptom can arise from hearing loss, noise exposure, medications, an ear disorder, migraine, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, vascular disease, or changes within […]
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 […]
TMJ and Tinnitus: Should we explore the ligament chain from the cervical spine through the neck to the jaw to the ear?
Ross Hauser, MD; Danielle Matias, PA-C; Demi Foster, APRN For most of the patients that we see with problems linked to the cervical spine, we rarely see a patient who suffers from the symptoms of one diagnosis. Such is the case with people with tinnitus and TMJ and TMJ and […]
Occipital neuralgia and Suboccipital headache – C2 neuralgia treatments without nerve block or surgery
Ross A. Hauser, MD. Occipital neuralgia – C2 neuralgia treatments without nerve block or surgery Patients who write to us often describe a condition of hopelessness from a diagnosis of Occipital neuralgia or C2 neuralgia. They tell us about unrelenting headaches, pain and even swelling in the back of the […]