Neck Pain

Neck pain is pain that can occur anywhere in your neck, from the bottom of your head to the top of your shoulders. It can spread to your upper back or arms.

Causes of Neck Pain

The most common causes of neck pain are:

• Injuries such as whiplash injuries.
• Injuries from activities involving repeated or prolonged neck movements.
• Fractures, sprains, or strains of soft tissues such as ligaments and muscles, or injuries to the small joints between the spine's bones.
• Pressure on nerve roots from conditions such as a herniated disc or spinal stenosis.
• Osteoarthritis of the small joints of the spine (facet joints).
• Aging causing degenerative disc disease.

Less common causes are tumors, spinal infection, ankylosing spondylitis.