Dizziness is very unpleasant for affected persons. Everything in your head is spinning, sometimes you can hardly stand on your feet. Everyday tasks become a great strain.
If dizziness is persistent, a medical examination should definitely be performed to clarify organic causes. In many cases, however, no direct causes can be found. Tension is often the cause of dizziness. If all other possible causes can be medically excluded, a specific examination should be made to determine whether the person concerned may be suffering from dizziness caused by tension.
Causes of dizziness due to tension
Tensions are usually painful or unpleasant hardenings in the muscles. Due to the widespread lack of exercise in today’s society, which is favored by predominantly sedentary activities, tensions are widespread. Especially the neck and shoulder muscles as well as the muscles of the back are often affected by tension.
The cause for the tensions is often a vicious circle. Both physical inactivity and mental tension lead to muscle cramps. This causes pain, causing the person affected to move even less, adopt incorrect postures and thus produce even more tension.
The muscles of the body have certain sensors that give the brain feedback on how the corresponding body part is positioned in space (the so-called proprioception). Therefore we know, for example, even with our eyes closed, whether our arm is hanging straight down or stretched upwards without having seen it. If there is tension in a muscle, these receptors may be pressed or compressed.
The feedback to the brain is thereby altered and the brain no longer receives coherent movement information. This then leads to feelings of dizziness. In particular, when tensions occur in several parts of the body at the same time, the brain gets confused.
Pronounced dizziness can be the result. The tensions that lead to dizziness are mainly tensions of the neck and neck muscles, the eye muscles and the muscles of the shoulders and upper back. Dizziness is particularly important in the case of tension in the neck muscles, since this is where important blood vessels lead to the brain, the vertebral artery.
Pronounced tension causes a massive increase in pressure in the muscles, which can also affect the vessels. If these are less supplied with blood, part of the blood supply to the brain is missing, which in turn can also result in dizziness. Tension in the back area can lead to dizziness.
Especially when the upper back is affected, the shoulder and neck muscles often also tense up. This can disturb the blood vessels running in the neck to the brain, which in turn can lead to a slight reduction in the blood supply to the brain. This can explain the dizziness.
Due to today’s widespread lack of exercise, the back muscles of many people are underdeveloped, so that bad posture and tension can quickly develop. This can be prevented by strengthening the muscles. Tension in the muscles of the cervical spine (cervical spine) is one of the most common causes of dizziness.
In today’s society, the cervical musculature is particularly often affected by tension and poor posture. The hardening leads to an increase in pressure in the tissue, which can affect the blood vessels, arteria vertebrales, which run along the cervical vertebrae in a bone canal. This can disrupt the sensitive blood supply to the brain, which can manifest itself as dizziness.
Strengthening, movement and stretching of the neck, shoulder and back muscles can prevent tension. Stress leads to painful tensions in many people, which can also lead to dizziness. The neck and shoulder muscles are particularly often affected by tension.
In case of mental tension, one tends to pull the shoulders towards the ears. There they harden after a while and develop permanent tension. In the course of the day, you should always make sure to keep your shoulders loose.
To learn what it feels like when your shoulders are loose, you can first pull them up to your ears with all your strength and then let them fall loosely again.If you do this several times in a row, it is a good relaxation exercise. Unfortunately, stress cannot always be avoided in everyday life. Therefore, tensions caused by stress are not uncommon.
Therefore, it is all the more important to make sure that sufficient compensation for the mental stress situations is created. Especially during sports, mental stress can be reduced very well. Movement relaxes and strengthens the muscles and prevents tension. Especially sports like yoga are very good to reduce stress and improve the body feeling.
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