Neck pain (or cervicalgia) is a common problem, with two-thirds of the population having neck pain at some point in their lives. Reasons of neck pain could be simply into several categories:-
- " Spendylosis
- " Spiral stress
- " Spinal disc herniation
- " Severe degeneration
More people usually suffer the neck pain cause of stress- physical and emotional stress.
Neck pain - psychological distress and anxiety are closed linked to persistent neck pain. Researchers at university of Gottingen, German, studied 488 patients who had suffered at least one episode of neck pain.
More than half of subjects (56 per cent) reported neck pain on the day they completed the questionnaire and 26 percent had constant neck pain during the past year. Based on their responses to a standard assessment questionnaire, 20 percent of subject was classified as having a depressive mood, and 28 percent were found to be anxious, the researchers report in the journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.
They said individual with depressive mood or anxiety were highly likely to have the highest level of neck pain. The results, the researchers say suggest that that the degree of neck pain is related to the degree of psychological distress.
