Neck pain

Prevalence

 * Katrina Berne reports a prevalence of 65-95% for muscle and/or joint pain, neck pain.

Symptom recognition

 * In the Canadian Consensus Criteria, pain is a required criteria for diagnosis. It requires that "there is a significant degree of myalgia. Pain can be experienced in the muscles, and/or joints, and is often widespread and migratory in nature. Often there are significant headaches of new type, pattern or severity."

Possible causes

 * Cervical spinal stenosis


 * Chiari malformation
 * Craniocervical instability