Can neck pain cause dizziness?

Neck pain and dizziness often accompany each other; however, the causality of the two can be hard to establish, according to the Vestibular Disorders Association. Cervicogenic dizziness is often caused by whiplash injuries and brain trauma.

The diagnosis of cervicogenic dizziness can be frustrating and time-consuming, as well as being somewhat controversial, according to the American Hearing Research Foundation. Given that the sensory organs involved in balance and locomotion are located in the head, determining whether or not the dizziness a patient is experiencing is the result of a neck injury or a separate head injury can be a complicated process.