Neck pain

Prolonged sitting, repetitive movements, poor ergonomics, it all stacks up.

Neck pain overall is actually the fourth leading cause of disability worldwide.

So what actually causes tech neck day to day? Walk me through it.

Forward head posture mainly, from looking down at phones, tablets, laptops.

Obviously, you need to breathe, and the head usually has to be weighted.

Does that mean stomach sleeping automatically causes neck pain? Absolutely not.

But if you wake up with neck stiffness every morning or spend hours with your head rotated while sleeping, that's something we need to consider and look at because obviously there's that relationship there.

So for those people who are like, you know, I sleep on my side, I sleep on my back, and then I wake up and I'm on my stomach.

He is here to talk to us about a topic that is near and dear to my heart, and I'm super excited to hear what he has to say.

We're going to discuss the topic of neck pain and headache and how they're related.

Dr. Matthew has published a very interesting paper on this topic and how we can differentiate between occipital neuralgia, cervicogenic headache, and migranous cervicalgia.

So if you're someone who experiences some neck pain, neck discomfort along with your head pain or at other times, please listen in.

This is going to be very interesting.

So Dr. Matthew, let's start with why you feel this topic of the relationship between neck pain and headache is so important.

Well, I don't need to tell the audience, but it is worth repeating.

Migraine is incredibly common.

No, I did it in tennis.

really yeah big swing big swing big swing and a miss i was saying that if you have neck pain you have to go see my favorite um youtube chiropractor

oh in la

no i think she lives in like orlando or something but it's honestly on my to-do list in life to go i

Speaking of spinal issues, so I have cervical spondylosis or spondylosis or whatever, which is basically just like age-related deterioration in my cervical spine.

so you know whatever i've seen that on a scan but it's particularly it's been bad this entire summer like i've had a lot of like you know neck pain and uh so i was swimming irritates it even though swimming's such a great exercise so i looked up recently like how to swim with cervical spondylosis or however the hell you say it it recommended i don't think there's a t in it

okay

I don't think there's a T.

done? I'm not reading my phone.

You know what I've just done? I've just ordered one.

Why is he having all the fun? Do you have neck pain? No.

Oh, I just like the idea of being able to swim.

And, you know, there's some learning for you.

Well, next up, we've got relatively common presentation of a patient who turned up with neck pain.

Something we see all the time, isn't it?

Yep.

And then there's also some reflections on the decision-making of the clinician, which affects all of us and the different types of bias that we might be affected by.

So should we have a chat through the case?

Yeah, it was really interesting, wasn't it? So a young man presented with three-day history of neck pain.

And the onset, which I guess was where the curveball started, was because he'd been on a speedboat.

But then they sort of mixed two, in a lot of ways, completely different pain types.

And some people had neck pain.

Some people had back pain.

Some people had both neck and back pain.

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So the title of the article is Gatekeepers in Primary Care, a Qualitative Study on Manual Therapists' Role in Triageing Patients with Back and Neck Pain.