Synonyms in a broader sense Cervical spine syndrome, cervical spine syndrome, cervical syndrome, chronic cervical spine complaints, cervical spine pain, neck painIn this topic I would like to provide background knowledge on the development of chronic neck complaints and offer “help for self-help”. Frequency Approximately 50% of all adults suffer from back pain, 30% of … Physiotherapeutic treatment of chronic neck pain
Symptoms One speaks of chronic neck pain if the complaints last longer than 3 months. Typical for chronic pain is a changing symptomatology, i.e. there is a permanent pain of varying intensity. Pain peaks are often in the morning after getting up and in the evening after the day’s workload has been completed, when the … Symptoms | Physiotherapeutic treatment of chronic neck pain
Drugs For the medicinal treatment of chronic pain, so-called centrally acting painkillers are used, which reduce the increased excitability of the pain-processing nerve cells. Depending on the form of the day or daily stress, short-term painkillers are combined with long-term medication. An additional application possibility is the direct infiltration of local anesthetics and/or cortisone into … Drugs | Physiotherapeutic treatment of chronic neck pain
