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Medicines can ease neck pain and reduce the risks of inflammation in the soft tissues. Pain relief will allow you to move your neck gently and then you can begin easy exercises which can accelerate your healing speed.

Although pain relievers, muscle relaxants, and antidepressants are widely used for back pain, there are no hard evidences to support that these treatments are effective to every sufferers.

In most cases, doctors may suggest you to have some nonprescription or prescription pain relievers to ease your pain.

Source: http://www.ahealthlab.com/neck-pain-relief-medications.html

● Nonprescription pain relievers may include:

- Creams or gels that are wrapped on the painful area, such as Bengay.

- Acetaminophen, which can relief your pain temporary but effectively, such as Tylenol.

- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can contribute to relieve pain and decrease the risks of inflammation. These drugs may include aspirin (such as Bayer), ibuprofen (such as Advil), or naproxen sodium (such as Aleve). If you are under 20, you’d better not to have aspirin since it has potential risk of Reye syndrome.

● Prescription pain relievers may include

— Muscle relaxants, including diazepam (such as Valium), cyclobenzaprine (such as Flexeril), and carisoprodol (such as Soma), are effective to ease severe neck pain and spasms when common neck pain or acute neck pain begins.

— Narcotic pain relievers, including codeine, acetaminophen and hydroquinone (such as Vicodin, Lortab), aspirin and oxycodone (such as Percodan), and acetaminophen and oxycodone (such as Percocet), are effective to relieve severe short-term or acute neck pain.

— Antidepressants, including doxepin (such as Sinequan) and amitriptyline, are effective to ease long-lasting or chronic pain.

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In most cases if your neck pains are resulted in repeated or prolonged movements to the neck’s muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones, or joints, it is not advisable or necessary for you to perform a surgery.

Source: Neck Pain Surgery

● However, if your neck pains are caused by following cases, surgery should be within your consideration.

— If your neck pain is caused by traumatic injury which may bring about fracture or abnormal motion, surgery can help you stabilize the spine and restrain a bone fracture from causing possible instability or paralysis.

— Your pain is caused by pressure on the spinal nerve roots or spinal cord which may bring about pain, numbness in neck area, weakness in arm or hand, persisting severe pain for months in spite of treatment, or even lead to loss of bladder or bowel control.

— Your pain is caused because of narrowing of the spinal canal (cervical spinal stenosis) or arthritis of the neck.

● Or surgery is available if your neck pain is resulted in pressure on the nerve roots or injury or illness, including:

— Discectomy, no matter whether it is with or without fusion. See the surgery section of the topics about herniated disc if you want to get further information.

— Cervical spinal fusion, when the irrelevant bones in the neck are connected together.

— Spinal decompression, in which removing part of a bone or disc to reduce the pressure on the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots.

In most cases, many sufferers may think that it would be better to have a disc replacement surgery rather than spinal fusion. Disc replacement surgery is to remove a seriously damaged spinal disc and then replace it with an man-made disc. However, this surgery is still in immature stage, and only be done by those specially trained surgeons. What’s more, there are no studies to show its long term effects on every sufferer.

It is investigated that success probability of a surgery in relieving pain caused by pressure on the nerve roots is about 80% to 90%. However, there is no evidence to show that surgery can treat neck pain radically, and it is more likely that the pain will return again.

Some sufferers with chronic facet joint pain has tried a minor surgical technique (also called percutaneous radiofrequency neurotomy). Neck pain after whiplash is often resulted from the facet joint which is a part of the spine. However, it is a high demanding surgery, and only can be done by specially trained surgeons. Although 3/5 sufferers with whiplash said their pains is relieved for more than six months after the minor surgical technique, there is no sufficient evidence to support that their pain will never come back six months later.

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The characteristics of neck pain are many and varied from people to people. Generally, they may include:

Source: http://www.ahealthlab.com/neck-pain-symptoms.html

1. Pain first starts on the bottom of your head and then extends into the top of your shoulders, and even spread to the upper back or arms.

2. Your pain gets worse along with your movement.

3. Your neck is more likely to be stiff or tender due to limited head and neck movements.

4. Common headaches while may persist for months.

Stress on the spinal nerve roots or spinal cord may bring about nerve-related symptoms, such as,

— Numbness, tingling or weakness in your arms or hands.

— A burning feeling occurs when you touch on the skin of the arm or hand.

— A shock pain and may spread into your arms and hands.

— Numbness or weaknesses in your leg, or you are hard to control urination or bowel movements, which resulted from great pressure or injury to the spinal cord.

If your neck pain is the chronic one, it is more likely to limit your daily life. Generally, the negative effects of the chronic pain may cause you fatigue, depression, and anxiety. See the topics about chronic pain if you want to get further information.

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