Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Neck Pain Causes

We often hear that pain in the neck causing impaired activity. Indeed, severe pain in the neck becomes a very unpleasant experience.
It can be associated with the following factors. Your neck holds the head for about sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. Pain is felt only when it was lying asleep.
During the sixteen hours of this, your neck feels stiff when working, hooked while watching television, reading, exercising even when talking on the phone. So, do not be surprised if your neck shouting for help!
Almost everyone has experience with pain or stiffness in the neck. Neck pain is the most common case (other than cough and flu) at the clinics, GP practices and ranks second as a cause one has to leave work.
Fortunately, most neck pain is not a dangerous condition. Acute sprains of the neck muscles Catherine acute neck is 50-60 percent of the causes of pain in the neck. So there are also some pains that the conditions are more serious than others. The condition can threaten life or cause great discomfort and create other pain such as headaches, shoulder weakness, dizziness and low back pain. Such conditions require immediate care and stabilization.
Here are the conditions that require neck pain relief because it can threaten:
• The condition of the cervical discs, this disc includes a bulge on the nerve compression that causes critical stenosis of the spinal canal, resulting in limb weakness and then paralysis.
• Cracks in the cervical spine that causes an imbalance and the possibility of paralysis.
• Infection in the organ around the neck.
• Spontaneous aneurysm of the vertebral or carotid artery. This occurs when blood vessels in the neck widened spontaneously.
• Arthropati and osteoarthritis, pain arising from facet joint damage.
If we divide the categories of neck pain, pain can arise either locally or came from other regions.
Causes of local pain in the neck can be caused by:
1. Cervical nerve - compression or irritation of nerve.
2. Ligamental and muscle injury, sprain or whiplash.
3. Cervical vertebrae, inflammation of small joints (facet).
4. Cracked bone skeleton.
5. Infection.
Even when the cause of neck pain is benign, it can be very disabling. Therefore, we should not underestimate the neck muscle pain due to dislocated local muscle can spread to the shoulders, arms and even fingers. Sometimes, it feels like chest pain or a stabbing pain in the shoulder.
If the pain is unbearable, you should immediately consult to a doctor.

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