Causes of Cervical Spine Pain
Cervical spine pain is one of the most common medical conditions. Cervical spine discomfort or neck pain can happen due to a lot of reasons like a disease or disorder that usually involve tissues in the neck. The most common disorders that lead to neck pain symptoms are neck injury, neck strain, degenerative disc disease, pinched nerve, whiplash or a herniated disc. Apart from these medical conditions cervical spine pain can also happen due to infections like throat viral infection which happens due to lymph node (gland) swelling. Some of the time this type of cervical spine discomfort can also be caused by rare and very severe infections like osteomyelitis and septic discits that is an infection of the spine bones in the neck, tuberculosis of the neck, meningitis that also leads to neck stiffness.
Cervical Spine Conditions
There are a lot of cervical spine conditions that range from being mild to extremely severe that lead to cervical spine pain as well as neck pain. These conditions are:
- Whiplash
- Neck Injury
- Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease
- Cervical Herniated Disc
- Cervical Spinal Stenosis
- Pinched Nerve
- Swelling of the Lymph Gland
- Osteomyelitis
- Septic Discits
- Tuberculosis of the Neck
- Meningitis
- Fibromyalgia
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica
According to cervical spine doctors most of the time cervical spine conditions may happen because of an injury, automobile accident, horse riding as well as fall that may jar the neck. Some time rare medical conditions may also be the contributing factor of these conditions.
Treatments for Cervical Spine Pain
Most of the time non-surgical cervical treatments are preferred for cervical spine pain. Surgery is taken up as an option in only very severe cases and when the neck pain symptoms of the patient fail to show any respite. General cervical treatments include:
- Massage Therapy
- Exercises
- Stress Management
- Postures and Spine Alignment
- Electrical Stimulation
- NSAIDs
- Epidural Injections
