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Neck Pain Creators

Disorders that can create Neck pain:

1. Neck injury from
   
   • Traumatic Accidents – Vehicles, Sports, Falls, Blows, etc
   - Whiplash (20% women will go on to develop fibromyalgia)
   • New exercise programs or sports and leisure activities
   • Repetitive Motion Injury
   • Excessive or improper lifting
   • Other Improper Movements
   • Poor Posture
   - “Turtling” - Head pulled down into shoulders like a turtle
   - “Sticking your Neck Out” – Chin out, excessive neck curve
   
   
   Leading to:
   
   • Soft Tissue strain (high occurrence rate)
   • Soft Tissue Sprain (high occurrence rate)
   • Muscle Spasms (high occurrence rate)
   • Normal Inflammation (high occurrence rate)
   • Fracture (low occurrence – unless in accident, vehicle, fall, high impact sports accident, osteoporosis, etc)
   • Disc injury (low occurrence unless already degenerating and/or involved in accident as listed above)
   
   
   The following are in no particular order of priority
   2. Degenerative Spine Disease
   3. Degenerative Disc Disease (disc disorders - a part of “Degenerative Spine Dis-ease”)
   4. Neck ligament disorder
   5. Misaligned Spine
   6. Incorrect Neck Support while Sleeping
   7. Stress of all types Physical, Emotional, and Chemical
   8. Chronic Inflammation
   9. Depression
   10. Lack of proper sleep
   11. Poor Nutrition
   12. Essential Fatty Acid Imbalance
   13. Head injury
   14. Fibromyalgia
   15. Osteoarthritis (a degenerative rheumatic dis-ease)
   16. Rheumatic disease - Any one a group (over 100 at last count) of conditions characterized by inflammation and/or pain in the muscles, joints, or fibrous tissue – including connective tissue conditions and diseases that affects the major substances in the skin, tendons, and bones – autoimmune and others
   17. Polymyalgia rheumatica and Giant cell arteritis
   18. Cervical Spondylosis
   19. Congenital cervical rib
   20. Referred Pain – upper back or shoulder
   21. Chronic pain – metabolic changes that result from chronic pain causing conditions
   22. Maldynia
   23. Osteoporosis
   • Vertebrae Fractures
   24. Ankylosing Spondylitis
   25. Stenosis Spinal Cord and/or Nerve Roots
   26. Chiari Malformation
   27. Syringomyelia - cyst(s) that form within the spinal cord destroying the center of the spinal cord
   28. Nerve Disorders
   29. Poor Nutrition
   30. Body Burden: The number and types of Toxic Chemical (selection up to 80,000) residue present in your tissues: - environmental and occupational radioactive and chemical exposures, (including PCB, pesticide and herbicides, xenoestrogens- and other endocrine disruptors,) and metals
   31. Chemical drugs (pharmaceuticals) interactions and side-effects
   32. Oxidative Stress Level
   33. Carotidynia - acutely tender swelling over the carotid artery. It is a condition related to inflammatory changes in the wall of the bifurcation of the carotid artery
   34. Swollen Lymph Nodes
   35. Tumors
   36. Spinal Infection
   37. Meningitis
   38. Osteomalacia – Adult Weak bone disease caused by a vitamin D deficiency
   39. Diskitis: an infection in the disk space is unusual in a patient who has not undergone a cervical surgery, but it is more prevalent in patients who have a compromised immune system
   40. Arachnoiditis: a scarring of the arachnoid membrane , which is a covering of the nerve roots. The most common cause is previous surgery, although some patients may suffer if they have had myelograms in the past.
   41. Cancer