Cervicogenic Headache: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
Cervicogenic headache is a secondary headache in which pain perceived in the head is in fact referred from a disorder of the cervical spine, most often the upper cervical segments.
Body region
Cervical spine
Clinical guidance for cervical spine assessment and treatment — mechanical neck pain, cervicogenic headache, radiculopathy, and post-injury rehab.
The cervical spine is your neck — the small vertebrae that support your head and let you turn, nod, and look around. Neck pain is very common and often linked to posture, stress, poor sleep, or long hours at a screen, though it can also follow an injury. Most cases aren't serious and improve with gentle movement and time.
Physiotherapy helps by easing pain and stiffness, restoring neck and shoulder movement, and giving you simple exercises to stop symptoms returning. Here we cover practical assessment and treatment for common neck problems — mechanical neck pain, cervicogenic headache, whiplash, and nerve-related symptoms — with guidance clinicians can apply and explanations patients can actually understand.
Cervical Radiculopathy: Assessment And The Wainner Test Cluster
Since no single clinical test reliably confirms the diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy in isolation, contemporary practice relies on a validated cluster of tests to raise or lower the probability of nerve root involvement.
Neck Pain: A Clinical Reasoning and Classification Framework
A structured classification framework allows the clinician to reason from a broad presenting complaint toward a defensible working category, and to match the intervention to that category rather than applying a uniform protocol to every patient.