This case report describes a patient with chronic neck pain and concurrent vestibular symptoms (dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, and nausea) whose symptoms improved following cervical medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy. While radiofrequency neurotomy is an established treatment for cervical zygapophyseal joint-mediated pain, this case illustrates a temporal association between treatment of cervical pain and...
No actionable change for audiologists based on a single case report; cervicogenic vestibular symptoms remain a poorly evidenced concept and this finding requires replication in controlled studies before influencing clinical pathways.
If cervicogenic mechanisms can reproducibly explain a subset of vestibular and tinnitus presentations, it could open interdisciplinary referral pathways between audiology and interventional pain medicine.
- 01Single case report of dizziness, vertigo, and tinnitus resolving after cervical medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy.