Most neck pain is transient of unknown cause. Potentially serious causes of neck problems usually result from injury or degenerative or inflammatory diseases of the cervical joints. Given the proximity of the joint structures and nervous (in the joints and nerves) in the cervical spine, joint disease has the potential to result in nerve pain, usually the most serious of cervical pathology.
The disease produces severe cervical symptoms beyond the confines of the cervical region, often without symptoms in the neck itself, and typically these symptoms are neurological. Any disorder associated with erosion of cartilage or discs, rheumatoid arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatic, spondyloarthropathies, and fibromyalgia is associated with symptoms in the neck region.
Pain
To address this problem, the three most important data are time, history and musculoskeletal symptoms in other body parts. When pain is of recent onset, without prior injuries, is limited to the neck, and no other specific (more…)
