Diagnosis and Treatment of Dizziness and Headache

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Abstract

Dizziness and headache are separately quite common. There are, however, a number of scenarios where the two can be interconnected. An area of significant clinical interest at this time is migraine-associated dizziness, in which the migraine generator produces vestibular symptoms.

Also, there can be an overlap between orthostatic intolerance and migraine, with a spectrum of symptoms from palpitations and tachycardia to pre-syncope or actual syncope. A third important area of overlap is related to mechanical syndromes of the neck, cervicogenic headache, which may overlap, occurring with vestibular symptoms. There are also a number of systemic entities that can cause both dizziness and headache covered in this chapter.

Keywords

Vertigo Dizziness Migraine-associated dizziness Migrainous vertigo Orthostatic intolerance Cervicogenic dizziness Cervically mediated dizziness 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Headache Center, Neurological Center for Pain, Neurological InstituteCleveland ClinicClevelandUSA

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