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Neck pain is very common among many people and gets worse when age catches up. It is a medical condition called Cervical Spondylosis.

Cervical Spondylosis describes a condition in which the cervical disc starts to degenerate, compress, and narrow the space needed by the spinal cord and the nerve roots that pass through the spine to the rest of your body.

Cervical Spondylosis causes no symptoms in most people, but when it does, it will present nasty pain and stiffness in your neck, which restricts the movement of your head lifting up and down, or turning from left to the right.

It can cause wear and tear of your neck spinal discs due to the excessive usage of mobile phones or computers, or it can be due to ageing, injury, or an accident.

Cervical Spondylosis causes your cervical discs to dehydrate and shrink resulting in signs of osteoarthritis developing in the neck. This will cause the spinal disc to have bony projections along the edges of the bones called bone spurs.

The bone spurs will compress on the nerve of the cervical spine causing shoulder pain and hand numbness radiating down to the elbow, wrist, and fingers.

This condition is called Cervical Radiculopathy causing persistent pain in the neck and shoulder, hand weaknesses, or the possibility of a trigger finger or thumb.

When you have Cervical Radiculopathy, you may also notice a loss of strength in your hands when you try to pick up a pen to write. You may also have difficulty combing your hair or wearing your shirt.

Severe stages of Cervical Radiculopathy may cause you to have nerve damage or develop a frozen shoulder that you cannot even lift up your arm over your head.

Neck pain can also be caused by accidents that jerk the neck violently and over-stretch the soft tissues beyond their limits known as whiplash.

Whiplash is a quick and sudden action that compresses your neck vertebrae and strains the neck muscles as it pushes your head forward, thus impinging on your nerves.

Whiplash can happen in a car accident or when someone or an object hit you hard on the head. It causes neck and shoulder pain, and numbness thus sending a radiating and tingling painful sensation down towards your arms and fingers.

Bad posture during your daily activities can also contribute to your neck pain. For example, excessive usage of your mobile phone or computer, sleeping on your stomach and holding the phone with your neck.

Emotional stress can also cause us to clench our neck muscles and tensing them up without you realizing it. This can cause neck pain, muscle spasm and strain to your shoulders and upper back.

Neck pain may radiate down to the shoulder or between the shoulder blades, or it may radiate out into the arm, elbow and fingers. This is known as irritation of the Brachial Plexus (the Brachial Plexus is a network of nerves that goes to the arm from the spinal cord in the neck).

Acute pain can also force the head to turn to one side, causing a one-sided or double-sided head pain. The pain tends to come and go with occasional flare-ups. You may have a pain attack after unaccustomed use of your neck or if you sprain a neck muscle or ligament.