Some years back I had an automobile accident and due to that I suffered from severe neck and back pain. The pain was so unbearable that I had to change how I sat; from seating straight I had to change my pose to a curved one. Car accident can often change life due to this onset of pain that cannot be cured fully.
Friends and clients I meet with similar problem have causes and symptoms that are very much different.
Injury or trauma to neck disc or nerve problems within the neck and arthritis are common cause for these pains. These problems arise also due to sitting for a long time before a computer, stress and also sleeping in an awkward position.
Neck pain can be severe at a time. It can be a sudden or chronic where it can last for more then three months depending on the cause. Some time exact diagnosis cannot be done. While sometime, it is diagnosed as Fibromyalgia for certain pains.
Sufferers experience pains like muscle stiffness, soreness, stiff to the touch, acute pain strong enough to force the neck to turn to one side, pain radiating down the back and/or arms, one or both-sided headaches, pain in the base of the skull, tingling arms and/or fingers and general weakness in the neck and/or arms.
