Guest editorial on Cervicogenic Dizziness in Manuelletherapie (Thieme)

What is it about?

This special issue of Manuelle Medizin focuses on patients with a controversial form of dizziness: one which is thought to originate from the musculoskeletal structures in the upper cervical spine. During a specialization course on dizziness I attended recently, both the neurologist and the ear, nose, throat specialists emphatically stated that cervicogenic dizziness does not exist. Their position was that hyperventilation and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), labyrinthitis or Meniere's disease topped the list of likely diagnoses and that in some 12% of cases no proper diagnosis could be formulated. In the early 1970’s; cervicogenic headache was thought to not exist but by 1988 when the first edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders was published, is had been specifically classified as a secondary headache in chapter 11.2.1. Perhaps cervicogenic dizziness will find its recognition in the years to come?

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Why is it important?

In this issue of Manuelle Medizin we hope to broaden as well as deepen the body of knowledge concerning dizziness for readers