Neck pain risk factors

The most potent risk factors in the development of uncomplicated neck pain is poor posture, anxiety and depression, neck strain, occupational injuries, or sporting injuries.Other risk factors include mechanical and degenerative factors, soft-tissue trauma, most typically seen in whiplash injuries. Disc prolapse and inflammatory, infective, or malignant conditions affect the cervical spine are less common risk factors.

• Bad everyday habits and postures: Chronic neck stiffness/pain is caused by everyday activities, including having poor posture while watching TV or reading, placing your computer monitor too high or too low, sleeping in an uncomfortable position, bending over a desk for hours, or twisting and turning the neck in a jarring manner while exercising.s^[1][2][3][4]
• Trauma and injury
• Degenerative changes in neck such as osteomyelitis, herniated disk
• Fibromyalgia
• Infection of the spine, such as abscess, meningitis
• Immune system diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS),polymyalgia rheumatica
• Neurological diseases such as stroke, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis
• Cancer that involves the spine

• Common risk factors in the development of neck pain may be occupational, environmental, genetic, and viral.
• Common risk factors in the development of neck pain include:
  • poor posture
  • anxiety
  • depression
  • neck strain
  • occupational injuries
  • sporting injuries
  • mechanical and degenerative factors
  • whiplash injuries^[1][2][3][4]

• Less common risk factors in the development of neck pain include:
  • Disc prolapse and inflammatory
  • infective
  • malignant conditions affect the cervical spine ^[1]

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