Symptoms

People who suffer from tensions often notice this through pain in the corresponding areas during movement. When pressure is applied to the muscles, the tensions can be very painful. When tension is felt, it feels like hardening in the actually soft muscles that slip away under the fingers.

Pressure on a tension can cause the pain to radiate to more distant parts of the body – for example, a tension in the upper back muscles during a massage can cause pain radiating into the hands. In addition, tensions often lead to unnatural postures. The musculature is hardened and leads to cramping of all surrounding body parts.

Those affected often have the feeling that the whole tense region is “contracted”. In the case of dizziness, in turn, various types of vertigo can be distinguished. The most common types of dizziness are twisting dizziness and swindling dizziness.

In the case of rotational vertigo, the patient has the feeling that the room/environment around him/her is rotating. With swindling vertigo, the patient feels more like being on a ship with a heavy swell. Vertigo can be accompanied by nausea and in severe cases even vomiting.

Tension with dizziness is often accompanied by headaches. This is a so-called tension headache, which manifests itself as dull or pulling pain. The patients affected have noticeably hardened neck muscles and cramped shoulders.

Warmth, massages and relaxation help to treat the complaints. The headaches and dizziness usually disappear when the neck tensions are released. Tension in the neck muscles can lead to attacks of dizziness.

Many affected people also suffer from pronounced neck pain caused by the tense muscles. Age-related signs of wear and tear of the cervical spine, so-called arthrotic changes, can also trigger tension and dizziness. Patients are then often only able to move their head to a limited extent and feel burning pain with every movement, which can radiate into the shoulder.

Ringing in the ears (tinnitus) is often associated with dizziness, which is caused by neck tension. Tension in the shoulder and neck muscles restricts blood circulation, which means that the brain and the auditory nerve can no longer be supplied with sufficient oxygen. Due to this undersupply, dizziness and ringing in the ears can suddenly occur.

Normally, the sounds in the ear last only a few seconds. In rare cases, the tinnitus may persist permanently. Massive tension of the neck muscles can lead to dizziness and palpitations.

Due to the tense muscles, less oxygen reaches the brain and short dizzy spells occur. The body reacts to this with a stress reaction and those affected suffer from tachycardia, shortness of breath and sweating. Stress is also a frequent trigger for tension.

In addition, there are often short attacks of dizziness and heart problems such as racing heart or heart stumbling. The problem here is mainly of a psychological nature. The symptoms can be alleviated by targeted relaxation exercises and stress reduction.