Neck trauma
The chiropractors often refer to whiplash but any type of injury could be termed neck trauma, from soft tissue, ruptured disc, vertebral fracture to spinal cord damage.
Dr. Bennett Machanic reviewed this
47 year experience in Neurology
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A 36-year old asked:
How do you treat neck trauma?
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Do symptoms like neck trauma go away quickly?
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A 38-year old asked:
Does neck trauma usually cause many symptoms?
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A member asked:
How common is it for somebody to get neck trauma?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: neck trauma?
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A 25-year old asked:
If you had to boil it down, what is neck trauma?
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A 48-year old asked:
Dizziness and vertigo at heights. Afraid I will fall and get neck trauma. Rational?
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A 19-year old male asked:
Doctor, Can the rootlets of spinal nerves (originating from spinal cord )which are very thin,snap out completely due to severe neck trauma?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Thinning(1)disk in my neck shown by x- rays no head or neck trauma no activities no heavy objects carried only poss. Symptom- migraine how?What now?
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A 22-year old female asked about a 40-year old female:
Hello, my mom has a neck trauma and sometimes her neck hurts alot, she can't have anything hot put on her neck only cold, . Any ideas on relieving pain?
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A 52-year old female asked:
Extreme pain down both arms when sneezing/coughing.Numbness/swelling of neck/am.Unable to walk normal/rubber legs.Had neck trauma yrs ago too.
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A 29-year old male asked:
Can cervical nerves heal if the neck sustained mild trauma? (I.e pinched, compressed or stretched.?
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A 28-year old male asked:
Serious neck pain. No trauma no op hx. Mri showed degen. C-spine with multiple protrusions of discs.Does it help to wear cervical collar all day long?
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A 29-year old male asked:
Causes of headache on left side of head above the ear and it hurts to touch my head in that area. No trauma, neck pain, or shoulder pain...
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A 27-year old female asked:
Have a feeling of something stuck i'm my throat after trauma to neck with no other symptoms what could this be? Have had clear xrays
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A 27-year old female asked:
Can trauma to neck/throat cause cricopharngeal spasm? I was in a car accident and seat belt injured neck feel like tightness no difficulty swallowing
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A female asked:
I have had slight, dull neck pain on the right side for 3 days. I have experienced no recent trauma and i'm in my 20s. What could it be?
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A 22-year old female asked about a 22-year old female:
I had blunt trauma on the bottom right of my head after hours suddenly I started feeling a very sharp pain in that area extended to my neck help me??!
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A 25-year old female asked:
Head trauma 2 days ago but now suffering from serious pain in neck and pain in upper body help please?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I have neck pain that radiates to arm like pinching but worse when I get up from bed is the worse what can it be I haven't had any trauma to it ?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Dull pain in neck and upper spine area. Sometimes I get a sharp stabbing pain near spine that is centralized. suggestions. No trauma or injury.
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A 34-year old male asked:
Is neck pain associated with stroke? No trauma or injury. Pain has persisted for a few weeks. Mri of neck was normal.
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A member asked:
Repeat bouts of sharp pain under left collarbone that spreads to left neck & shoulder. Painkillers, heat & massage don't work. No previous trauma.
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A 40-year old female asked:
Can small dissections of anterior, exterior and/or within the wall of an artery (neck) heal completely w/ no evidence of past trauma (scar tissue?)
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A member asked:
How can it be determined if a person has undergone blunt trauma to the neck/throat area versus 'atypical acid reflux' ? Would both show erosion?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Experience bilateral leg numbness and tingling and heaviness during the night, no back pain or other pain or trauma. I have a slight neck crimp too.
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A 27-year old female asked:
Can trauma to your neck cause a tight feeling in your throat as if there is sometimes a lump there?
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A 39-year old male asked:
I had a trauma to my neck in 2010 since then i've had muscle spasms and involuntary contractions in my left arm.
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A 48-year old female asked:
Neck pain shoulder pain radiation into shoulder and down arm no trauma throbbing and intense pain intensifies when i move my neck?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Can trauma to the neck, probably throat from blunt-force injury causes problems years later? Neck has always been sensitive around larynx.
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