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Short neck
Short neck is a trait in which a person has a shorter neck than normal, compared to the average person from the same ethnic/racial group.
Dr. Robert Kwok reviewed this
35 year experience in Pediatrics
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A 42-year old asked:
How can I treat a short neck?
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A 34-year old asked:
Can you tell me: are u fat if you have a short neck?
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A 46-year old asked:
What to do if I have a really short neck and it's been bothering me for a while. Is there any way to lengthen it?
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A 44-year old asked:
Does scoliosis have anything to do with me being short and having a short neck?
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A member asked:
A 14 month old raises his hands around bright lights, gruntsand exhales. He is delayed, has curved pinky finger, eats non-food items and has a short neck. Autism?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Sharp, short neck pains that shoot into fingers. Both sides. Occasional left side chest cramp. Good EKG, cardiac enzymes and chest X-ray. Heart issue?
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A 51-year old male asked:
Been having chest pain moves in to my neck short of breath?
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A 36-year old female asked:
I have fibromyalgia, 4 days with stiff neck short breath, tremors, but also a very sore spot on back of my head what is it and is it of any concern.
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A 24-year old male asked:
Night sweats with no other symptoms at all, normal CBC,ESR,peripheral blood smear. Lymph nodes under 5mm in short axis in neck. Any Ideas?
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A 30-year old female asked:
I am having numbness in my hands and legs sometime even near vagina and lips also and specially in left shoulder &neck.short breath ,severe dry throat?
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A 55-year old asked:
In what way can I make my neck look shorter?
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A 57-year old asked:
Could broadening the shoulders and raising traps make the neck look shorter?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I feel pain in forehead, behind eyes, and in front of neck; and short of breath when talking with anyone for awhile. Is it normal?
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A 36-year old asked:
My neck is really short is there any safe way to elongate it?
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A 43-year old asked:
Does a more muscular neck mean a shorter one?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Have a short managable pain at the intersection of the back of the neck and the head on the right side from yesterday morning?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Hair falls when I have short hair.Does not fall when I have neck long hair.How? Why?I am 23 male
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A 16-year old male asked:
For a week now I have been having short pains right about on the top right of my head, neck, and simotanioisly have had bloody boogers. allergies?
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A 26-year old male asked:
I have been having a constant pain in the right side of my neck for more than a month. It is associated w/ short term memory loss. I found online that this could be fybromyglia... What should I do now ?
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A 56-year old male asked:
Is short and long time memory loss a side effect of a radical neck disection?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Random short stabs of pain from back of neck left side to left head. Pressure in left head. Training for marathon, v healthy 34 yr female. ?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Short bouts of nausea lasting 5 to 30min. Have issues with neck hypermibility causing tension headaches and spacy feeling. Ok to wait 2wks til dr appt?
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A female asked:
What causes pain in the left shoulder? I have pain that starts under my left arm and moves over the front of my shoulder to my neck area. It is not constant. It comes and goes.It will hurt for a short time and a long time. This has been going on for a few
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A 27-year old male asked:
Found out left leg is shorter 1.5 can this be causing my pain all along my left side body from foot to neck? If so what can I do?
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A 22-year old female asked:
I have just 2-3hairs on the triangle of my neck,light in colour and short,not really noticeable,can they be due to pcos?not confirmed that i have it
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A 26-year old male asked:
I have short, sharp shooting pains in my chest, beneath my right breast. It feels as though the pain travels to my neck also. Any idea what this is?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I've been stressed lately, and because of this my breath feels short, and the back of my neck hurts, also heart pounds before I sleep, what's wrong?
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A 24-year old male asked:
A sonography specialist after evaluating said lymph nodes in my neck are less than 5mm in short axis& it's normal even long axis greater than 1Cm?idea
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A 27-year old female asked:
Shooting/stabbing pain in neck near left jaw line. Very painful, causes short bouts of dzns. Last few secs, goes away comes back. What could b related?
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A 30-year old female asked:
What causes short sharp pain in head? It is accompanied with shoulder pain and neck pain
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