Assessment of cervicogenic dizziness

Course overview

This practical dives deep into how to assess cervicogenic dizziness in the clinic and more! It will show you essential elements for assessment and simple but effective tools that you can immediately use in your clinical practice. Pertinent information to consider from the patient interview, clinical reasoning and the clinical examination will be emphasised to help you to determine the role of the neck in a patient presenting with dizziness and neck pain. The importance of a skilled assessment looking for patterns of cervical musculoskeletal dysfunction and altered cervical related sensorimotor will be highlighted. Tests that compare inputs or a change in sensorimotor control inputs will be particularly useful to help decision making regarding the role of the cervical spine in dizziness in an individual patient.