For three months following this head injury I felt quite fine. I had remarked to my GP that my neck did not feel quite right, although I had no pain and no restriction. I did however have some crunching noises when moving my head from side to side. The noises appeared to be coming from behind my nose. It was about three months to the day after the football game incident that I started experiencing symptoms. At first they were minor and annoying but then they progressed quite rapidly and became quite frightening.

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