A 21-year-old female asked about a 38-year-old female:

Extreme pain in neck and back of head with numbness and tingling in face mouth and head dizzyness, disoriented, no balance. not migrain what is it?

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Dr. Paul Grin
Pain Management 38 years experience
CervicogenicHeadache: Is a very common headache secondary to neck involvement. Cervicogenic headache is a unilateral pain provoked by neck movement or by pressure on the neck. These headache patients usually had a reduced cervical range of motion in association with the headache, dizziness, parasthesias. Rec.: see orofacial pain or headache specialist for evaluation and treatment.
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