What Causes Neck Pain?

Your neck facilitates blood flow to the brain, supports your head, and protects your spinal cord. Stress or damage to any of these elements can result in weakness, pain, and decreased range of motion. It doesn’t take much to strain your neck and cause pain because your head weighs about 11 pounds. Some causes of neck pain might be: slouching at a desk, too much “screen time” and looking at a computer for too long, poor sleeping posture with an elevated head, long periods of stress and anxiety, and turning your head back and forth repeatedly. Just the way you get out of a chair can effect the neck. This list is by no means exhaustive.

Doing these everyday activities might seem like they won’t cause an injury to your neck, but as time goes on doing those things can add stress and cause strain to various parts of your neck. Damage to the soft tissue and vertebra in your neck can eventually lead to a repetitive stress injury or degenerative disease. We sometimes injure our necks and don’t realize it until after the fact. This is common with lifting something too heavy or lifting improperly or slipping and falling. Symptoms from these injuries often seem minor or be seen as part of aging, however it can be the start of a more serious issue if you prolong treatment.

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