WEEK 8 - NON-SPECIFIC CERVICAL AND THORACIC PAIN

Question 1

non-specific cervical spine pain - sub categories

Answer 1

traumatic/sprain/strain - tissue related events

• fall
• awkward movement
• heavy overhead lift
• sport

atraumatic/insidious

• sustained posture
• acutely overloaded
• spondylosis/degenerative/osteoarthritis

whiplash

cervicogenic headache

• headache with non-specific neck pain

acute torticollis/Wry neck

• acutely locked - sometimes without an obvious event
• the lumbar list of the neck
• unclear pathological driver
  
  • joint or disc?
• can be highly irritable on initial presentation