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Originally Posted by giapet
I was under the impression that C1 and C2 nerves affect your head?
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Correct. Clinically, it's pretty rare to see involvement of sensory portion of C1 and C2. It's not common, is of arguable clinical significance and I have never heard of them being tested or seen a neurologist test those dermatomes (not that they couldn't be). There are no discs at C0-C1-C2 so compressive discopathic issues wouldn't occur at those levels although certainly other problems like tumor, infection, other ominous pathology etc could lead to radiculopathy at those levels I suppose. Probably the first thing to come to mind when someone mentions numbness above the neck are presumed problems in the V1, V2 and V3 distributions of the sensory portion of the trigeminal nerve (V cranial nerve) which testing is part of a routine neuro exam. I guess that was my point but technically you are right!
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