jaeguitar.blogg.se - Pain in cervical spine

To use his own argument for posterior neck pain, anterior neck pain simply references a location, not the cause of the pain.

With regards to proof of causation, he provides no justification as to why such a higher standard of evidence be required for anterior neck pain than posterior neck pain.

What Bogduk calls "throat pain" is commonly used to mean pain in the oropharynx, and is not usually used to refer to pain in the anterior or posterior triangles of the neck.

The anterior neck is divided into the "triangles of the neck," not "triangles of the throat.".

The term "neck lump" usually refers to pain in the anterior neck - throat lump has a completely different meaning, and refers to a lump in the pharynx.In the editor's opinion, the claims are wrong. He does not provide any references for these claims. He further states that practitioners wanting to use the term "anterior neck pain" need to prove that it is coming from the cervical spine.

The anterior neck is divided into the triangles of the neck.īogduk emphasises that cervical spinal pain is perceived posteriorly He states that pain in the region of the anterior cervical spine is called throat pain and there is a lack of any definition by an international authority. If a patient complains of anterior neck pain it should be differentiated from visceral causes such as pain from the lymph nodes, pharynx, larynx, trachea, or oesophagus. Musculoskeletal causes of anterior neck pain are uncommon, and little has been published about this phenomenon. This definition recognises that musculoskeletal causes of neck pain are typically perceived posteriorly. Upper cervical pain - above transverse line through C4.Suboccipital pain - between superior nuchal line and C2.Pain perceived as arising from anywhere within the region bounded superiorly by the superior nuchal line, inferiorly by an imaginary transverse line through the tip of the first thoracic spinous process, and laterally by sagittal planes tangential to the borders of the neck