What You Must Know About Neck Pain(Most Complete Summary)

Neck pain can be caused by any tissue lesion in the neck, from the meninges and cervical vertebrae to their blood vessels, muscles, and lymphatic tissues. This symptom can also be caused by lesions in other parts of the body, and the location, onset, and nature of the pain can help determine its origin and cause. Neck pain is usually caused by trauma or degenerative changes, congenital diseases, inflammation, and metabolic and neoplastic diseases.

Neck Pain Epidemiology (medicine)

Prevalence: No specific population group

Neck Pain Symptoms

Typical manifestations: Patients with neck pain may present with discomforts such as neck soreness and distension, which may be accompanied by neck stiffness, sensory disturbances, motor disturbances, dizziness, and dizziness.

Neck Pain Causes

General: There are many causes of neck pain, including infections of the neck tissues, tumors in the neck, joint lesions in the neck, and trauma to the neck.

Symptom Causes

1、Common Causes

(1) Infection: cervical spine inflammation, cervical spine tuberculosis, herpes zoster, brachial plexus neuritis.

(2) Tumor: metastatic cancer of the cervical spine, primary osteosarcoma, giant cell tumor of bone, nerve sheath tumor, chordoma.

(3) Central lesions: spinal cord cavernous disease, cranial lesions.

(4) Diseases of thoracic organs: angina pectoris, myocardial infarction.

(5) Rheumatic diseases: rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis.

(6) Trauma: neck trauma, cervical vertebrae trauma, cervical vertebrae fracture, and dislocation.

Common Diseases

Ankylosing spondylitis, neck extension injury, cervical fibrositis, cervical spine fracture, cervical spine infection, cervical spine tumor, cervical spondylosis, cervical stenosis, esophageal injury, cervical disc herniation, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, laryngeal carcinoma, lymphadenitis, meningitis, cervical sprain, osteoporosis, Paget’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, sphenoid fracture, subarachnoid hemorrhage, trauma to the thyroid gland, strabismus, and tracheal injury.