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Experiencing headache and pain in the back of the neck?

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Cervical spine.: That combination of symptoms leads me to think you have cervical spine pathology. This can causer neck pain, of course, as well as a headache that arcs over the head, as if you were putting on a helmet from back to front.

Answered 2/22/2016

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Experiencing headache and pain in the back of the neck?

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