SYMPTOMS
- Acute pain in the neck area can occur suddenly and intensely
- Chronic pain lasting for weeks, months, or even years
- Pain can be continuous or intermittent
- Headaches, pain in the scalp, face or ears
- Dizziness, pressure behind the eyes, fainting
- Radiation of pain down to the arms, causing numbness or pins and needles on the hands
- As neck muscles tense, they shorten limiting the movement of the neck