Neck Pain
Osteoarthritis and Cervical Facet Arthritis
The facet joints in the cervical spine can breakdown and lead to arthritis in the neck. This pain and stiffness in the neck can occur both gradually and chronically.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis can cause pain, stiffness, swelling, and limited function to multiple joints. It is triggered by a faulty immune system.
Cervical Disc Herniations
Disc degeneration or acute injury can cause the nucleus to herniate into the spinal canal or the neural foramen causing cervical disc herniations.
Radiculopathy
Radiculopathy is dysfunction of a spinal nerve root (or roots) that results in pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness in either your arm or leg depending on which nerve root(s) are involved. There are 29 pairs (left and right) of spinal nerves that exit the spine via neural foramen that are present at each level of the spine (one pair leaves at each vertebral level). Radiculopathy may affect only one side of the body or may be bilateral. When radiculopathy is present in the lumbar nerve roots, it produces sciatica; in the cervical nerve roots, it produces pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness in the shoulder, arm, wrist, and hands.
Cervical Posterior Element Pain
The interspinous ligaments of the lower cervical and upper thoracic spine and their associated muscles are susceptible to the development of acute and chronic pain symptomatology following overuse.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic, evolving, painful and progressive condition that affects the distal extremities often following a traumatic injury.
Cervical Muscle Spasms
Muscle spasms are painful, involuntary skeletal muscle contractions associated with abnormal electrical activity
