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Neck pain

Neck pain of any kind, at any age, is a sign that something is wrong. Pain is the way your body signals that a limit has been reached or a problem has developed. Since we can adapt, minor aches and pains are often shrugged off. While they may go away, if the underlying problem remains unattended, the problem may slowly worsen until it becomes more difficult and expensive to resolve. Some people silence their symptoms with a pain reliever and ignore the message. But that would be like removing the battery to silence a smoke detector!

Neck pain is often related to loss of the normal curve of the neck called hypolordosis and kyphosis. The abnormal spinal alignment often results in discopathy/herniations, spinal degeneration, ligament sprains and muscle strains. This irritates the nerves in the cervical area and localises the pain accordingly. Usually the cause is pinched nerves in the cervical area or inflammatory processes around them.

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symptoms

Common symptoms associated with neck pain usually involve one or more of the following:
  • Stiff neck - Soreness and difficulty moving the neck, especially when trying to turn the head from side to side.
  • Sharp pain - This symptom can be pain localised to one spot and might feel like it’s stabbing or stinging.
  • Radiating pain - The pain can radiate along a nerve from the neck into the shoulders and arms. The intensity can vary and this nerve pain might feel like it’s burning, achy and sharp. Tingling, numbness or weakness can result. These sensations can go beyond the neck and radiate into the shoulder, arm or finger. There could be a “pins-and-needles” sensation.
  • Trouble with gripping or lifting objects - This can happen if tingling, numbness or weakness in the fingers is present.
Headaches - Sometimes an irritation in the neck can also affect muscles and nerves connected to the head. This could be a tension headache, such as from neck muscles tightening; or occipital neuralgia, where a pinched occipital nerve in the neck causes pain to radiate up into the sides of the head and scalp.

Common causes

Sport injury
Text neck
Lifling heavy boxes
Falls
Driving for a long periods
Car accident
Working on computer for a long time
Heavy work
  Throughout our lives, we have physical stress on our body, some acute such as falls, traumas, accidents and some chronic such as sitting for long periods, working at a desk for long periods, using computers or phones or standing for long periods. These physical stresses cause us to lose the normal alignment and put the spine in a weakened position. At first, this causes no pain but as it continues to abnormally load the spinal structures, it begins to break down the spinal structures leading to spinal damage and eventually the pain and functional loss to develop.

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treatments

We focus on addressing the source of the pain and, by doing so, the symptoms can be alleviated. We develop specialised treatment tailored to the needs of the individual patient as we believe that every patient is uniquе. We’ve helped many people with the safe and natural American Spinal Clinic Treatment System. If you are having any type of pain, don’t wait, call today to schedule an appointment!  

Our treatment system

The American Spinal Clinic Treatment System has 3 major treatments components working synergistically together to achieve phenomenal results without drugs or surgery.

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results

X-rays of a patient with neck pain. The patient came into the clinic with decreased range of motion, stiffness, radiating pain, weakness and numbness down the arm. After the treatment course, the patient has significant improvement symptomatically, structurally and functionally.

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