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Chronic Neck pain

Chronic Neck pain: Introduction

Chronic Neck pain: Neck pain can occur anywhere in the neck, from the bottom of the head to the top of the shoulders. It can spread to the upper back or arms. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Chronic Neck pain is available below.

Symptoms of Chronic Neck pain

• Stiffness, or severe pain in your neck
• Headache
• Pain that shoots down the arm.
• Numbness, tingling, or weakness in the arm.
• more symptoms...»

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Treatments for Chronic Neck pain

• Reduce pain by putting an ice pack on the sore area and taking acetaminophen. Aspirin, ibuprofen, or another anti-inflammatory medicine can also help relieve pain
• Exercises or physical therapy
• Conservative management
• Surgical management
• more treatments...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Chronic Neck pain:

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Chronic Neck pain?

• Misdiagnosis of Chronic Neck pain
• Failure to diagnose Chronic Neck pain
• Hidden causes of Chronic Neck pain (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Chronic Neck pain

Chronic Neck pain: Related Patient Stories

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Chronic Neck pain: Complications

Review possible medical complications related to Chronic Neck pain:

• Cervical spondolysis
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Causes of Chronic Neck pain

• An infection in the neck
• Narrowing of the spinal canal in the neck (cervical spinal stenosis)
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• more causes...»

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• Chronic Neck pain as a symptom
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Chronic Neck pain: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

• Nerve Disorders: serious diseases commonly undiagnosed:
  • Diabetic Neuropathy -- Undiagnosed
  • Peripheral Neuropathy -- Undiagnosed
  • Multiple Sclerosis -- Undiagnosed
  • more ...»
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  • Fibromyalgia -- Undiagnosed
  • Arthritis -- Undiagnosed
  • Chronic Pain Syndromes -- Undiagnosed
  • Migraine -- Undiagnosed
• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Misdiagnosis and Chronic Neck pain

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Chronic Neck pain: Research Doctors & Specialists

Research related physicians and medical specialists:

• Nerve Specialists:
  • Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine
  • Neurology (Brain/CNS Specialists)
  • Pediatric Neurology (Child Brain Specialist)
  • Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
• Neck Health Specialists:
  • Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck
• Pain Specialists:
  • Pain Medicine
  • Rheumatology (Arthritis / Joint Pain)
• Arthritis & Joint Health Specialists (Rheumatology):
  • Rheumatology (Joint Health)
  • Pediatric Rheumatology (Child Joint Health)
• more specialists...»

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Evidence Based Medicine Research for Chronic Neck pain

Medical research articles related to Chronic Neck pain include:

• The efficacy of oxycodone for management of acute pain episodes in chronic neck pain patients
• Chronic neck pain
• Cost-effectiveness of acupuncture treatment in patients with headache
• Mechanical traction for neck pain with or without radiculopathy
• Strength training and stretching versus stretching only in the treatment of patients with chronic neck pain: a randomized one-year follow-up study
• Effect of neck exercise on sitting posture in patients with chronic neck pain.
• more research...»

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Chronic Neck pain: Broader Related Topics

• Pain conditions
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Types of Chronic Neck pain

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