A Guide To Neck Pain Causes

Now, the neck as a part of the rest of the spine consists of the virtual body, which is the bony part, and between the two bony parts is a little cushion disk. On the sides of the disk where the two, the upper and the lower, body of the vertebral body comes together to form a little joint, that's called a facet joint. Obviously, you get ligaments attaching from one piece of bone to another piece of bone.

You get arteries and veins coming out of certain parts of the neck, and it's surrounded by muscle tissue. So, when you look at all these structures, all of them can basically cause neck pain. The disk that's the cushion between the vertebral bodies can become worn and loses its shock absorption, which can cause pain.

That, in result, will let the facet joints, which are the joints on the side of the spine, get compressed, which can cause inflammation in them, and also pain. That can result in muscle spasm around the neck, which will again result in pain. And also, if a disk ruptures and some of the fluid leaks out, it can compress the nerve, usually it's one side or the other, which can cause neck pain but also right down into the shoulder, back of the neck, down the arm, even into the hand.

That's called a prolapsed disk or disk delineation. They also call that a pinched nerve. It's basically when the disk is causing pressure on the nerve.

So, when you are looking at a guide to neck pain, that's basically the things that cause neck pain. It could also be injury, like whiplash. What happens with that is with injury you get soft tissue damage and also strain on the actual joints.

But, the most common thing that caused neck pain is bad posture. Most of my patients that I see at the clinic is the result of bad posture. .