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Neck Pain

Important information you should know 
Common causes of Neck Pain: 
1. Bad posture.
2. Working on the computer for long hours.
3. Inactive lifestyle.
4. Doing the wrong exercises or wrong yoga postures. 
5. Lifting heavy weights.
6. Aggressive exercises without warm up or stretching in the gym.
Signs you should not ignore your neck pain: 
1. When you have neck pain for more than 6 weeks and it’s not getting better with rest and pain killer. 
2. When your pain is going down your arm.
3. When you have tingling or numbness in arm or hand 4. When you find the weakness in your arms. 
5. When your neck pain is severe and it’s not getting better rather getting worse.
6. If you got any accidental injury with forceful impact with neck jerk in which you are prone to fracture or any muscle tear or nerve injury. 
7. If you have a severe headache that's not getting better. 
8. When you have signs of nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. 
9. Severe throbbing pain in the neck and posterior occipital region.
10. If you are not able to move your neck forward with signs of fever or altered mental state.
11. If you have sleep deprivation due to pain.
12. Sudden unintentional weight loss. 

5 Common misconceptions about neck pain
a. Neck pain is not curable. 
b. Neck pain is always cervical spondylitis and spondylitis is always severe.
c. Neck pain gets better with rest only.
d. Wear neck collar in neck pain.
e. Neck pain happens because of aging.
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