In the international classification of diseases, the type of cervical disease is divided into nerve root cervical spondylosis or cervical myelopathy. In the clinical work, however, on the basis of clear diagnosis of cervical spondylosis, spine surgeons often encounter such a group of patients whose chief complaint is vertigo with or without more of the sympathetic symptoms. Due to the complexity of the sympathetic nerve symptoms and the lack of generally accepted standard of diagnosis and differential, such diseases have become a problem in orthopedic doctors and patients. In domestic and foreign research, the diseases are commonly referred to as “cervical vertigo”, since the name proposed so far, there has been a huge controversy on “cervical vertigo”. In this article we unified named after “cervical vertigo” of these diseases and made a review from the aspects of pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, etc.