The Empowerment of People With Neck Pain: Introduction: The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders

摘要

Most people can expect to experience some degree of neck pain in their lifetime. In many cases, this will amount to nothing more than mild discomfort which does not require treatment and which has no major impact on work or other activities. However, some people will go on to develop prolonged or repetitive episodes of neck pain -sometimes associated with headaches and/or arm pain and, on occasion, more serious neurologic symptoms such as arm weakness, numbness, and/or sensory deficits -which may become persistent and debilitating.