Common causes of Neck pain

Causes of Neck pain that are very common

The following causes of Neck pain are diseases or medical conditions that affect more than 10 million people in the USA:

• Arthritis
• Migraine
• Sinusitis - neck pain

Causes of Neck pain that are common

The following causes of Neck pain are diseases or conditions that affect more than 1 million people in the USA:

• Angina - pain extends to neck
• Disc disorders
• Fracture
• Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - neck discomfort
• Heart attack - neck discomfort
• Polymyalgia rheumatica - neck pain
• Rheumatoid arthritis - neck pain

Causes of Neck pain that are uncommon

The following causes of Neck pain are diseases or conditions that affect more than 200,000 people, but less than 1 million people in the USA:

• Ankylosing spondylitis

Causes of Neck pain that are very rare

The following causes of Neck pain appear in the population at a rate of substantially less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

• Lyme disease - neck aches
• Meningitis - pain on moving neck
• Meningococcal disease - pain on moving neck
• Rubella - tender neck lymph glands
• Thyroid cancer - neck pain
• Viral meningitis - pain on moving neck
• Whiplash - permanent neck pain

Causes of Neck pain without any prevalence information

The following causes of Neck pain are ones for which we do not have any prevalence information.

• Abscess
• Adenocarcinoma, Follicular - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 1 - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 2 - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 3 - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 4 - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 5 - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 6 - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 7 - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 8 - neck pain
• Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage - neck pain
• Angina - pain extends to neck
• Angiostrongyliasis - neck pain
• Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic - neck pain
• Arnold-Chiari Malformation (Type 1) - neck pain
• Arthritis
• Atlanto-Axial Fusion - neck pain
• Autoimmune Myelopathy - Neck pain
• Back tumour - neck pain
• Barrett syndrome - neck pain
• Basilar impression primary - neck pain
• Carcinoma, squamous cell of head and neck - neck pain
• Carotid artery dissection
• Carotidynia
• Certain cancers
• Cervical disk syndrome
• Cervical extension injury
• Cervical myelopathy
• Cervical rib
• Cervical spine arthritis
• Cervical spine fracture
• Cervical spine infection
• Cervical spine tumor
• Cervical spondylosis
• Cervical strain
• Cervicogenic headache - neck pain
• Chemical poisoning - Helium - neck pain
• Chordoma - neck pain
• Congenital cervical rib
• De Quervain thyroiditis
• Deep neck infection
• Degenerative Disc Disease - neck pain
• Discitis
• Elongated styloid process
• Esophageal trauma
• Facet syndrome - neck pain
• Functional disorders
• Gerlier disease - neck pain
• Grisel's syndrome
• Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - neck discomfort
• Head injury
• Heart attack - neck discomfort
• Herniated cervical disk
• Hilger syndrome - neck pain
• Hip cancer - neck pain
• Infection
• Inheritable disorders of connective tissue - Neck pain
• Intervertebral disc disease - neck pain
• Intervertebral disc herniation
• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
• Laryngeal cancer
• Ludwig angina
• Lymphadenitis
• Madelung's disease - neck pain
• Meningitis - pain on moving neck
• Metastatic squamous neck cancer with occult primary - neck pain
• Migraine
• Mononucleosis
• Muscle contraction headache - neckache
• Myelopathy
• Nasopharyngeal carcinoma - neck pain
• Neck Arthritis - neck pain
• Neck Cancer - Neck pain
• Neck conditions - Neck pain
• Neck injury - Neck pain
• Neck ligament disorder
• Neck muscle disorder
• Neck muscle spasm
• Neck muscle strain - neck pain
• Neck sprain
• Neck strain
• Optic neuropathy, anterior ischemic - neck pain
• Osteomyelitis
• Pharyngitis - tender neck lymph glands
• Poor posture
• Poor sleeping posture
• Posterior cervical sympathetic syndrome
• Prolapsed cervical disc
• Quinsy - tender neck lymph glands
• Retropharyngeal abscess - neck pain
• Rheumatoid arthritis - neck pain
• Rib Tumor - neck pain
• Riedel thyroiditis
• Ruptured disc
• SAPHO syndrome - neck pain
• See also stiff neck or swollen neck
• Sinusitis - neck pain
• Spinal Arthritis - neck pain
• Spinal disorder
• Spinous process fracture
• Spondylolisthesis
• Spondylosis - pain spreading from neck down arms
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Swollen neck lymph nodes - see the various causes of swollen lymph nodes
• Syphilitic aseptic meningitis - Neck pain
• Syringomyelia, cervical lesion - neck pain
• Temporo-mandibular ankylosis - neck pain
• Tension headache - neckache
• Thoracic outlet syndrome TOS - neck pain
• Throat infection
• Thryoiditis
• Thymus Cancer - Neck pain
• Thymus disorders - Neck pain
• Thyroglossal tract cyst - neck pain
• Thyroid cancer - neck pain
• Thyroid cancer, anaplastic - neck pain
• Thyroid cancer, Hurthle cell - neck pain
• Thyroid trauma
• Thyroiditis - neck pain worse turning the head
• Toritcollis
• Torticollis
• Torticollis, spasmodic
• Tracheal trauma
• Vertebral artery dissection - neck pain
• Vincent's angina
• Viral illness
• Viral meningitis - pain on moving neck
• Vocal nodules - sore neck
• West nile encephalitis - Neck pain
• West Nile fever - Neck pain
• Whiplash Injuries - neck pain
• Whiplash injury
• Whiplash pain - Neck pain
• Wrong pillow

All Causes of Neck pain

The full list of all possible causes for Neck pain described in various sources is as follows:

• Abscess
• Adenocarcinoma, Follicular - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 1 - neck pain
• Aneurysm, intracranial berry, 2 - neck pain

See full list of possible disease causes of Neck pain

Drug side effect causes of Neck pain

• Adenosine
• Adenocard
• Adenoscan
• Maxalt
• Maxalt-MLT

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