What Are the Most Common Causes of Radiating Neck Pain?

Radiation pain. When the neural stem, nerve root, or central neuropathy is stimulated, pain not only occurs locally in the stimulus, but can also extend to the innervation area of the affected sensory nerve. Pain is radioactive, and conductive pain dissipates from the proximal end (near the heart) to the distal end of the limb, like a string of inductance. Treatment should find the primary disease that causes radiation pain, and treat the cause.

Basic Information

Visiting department

orthopedics

Common locations

whole body

Common causes

Intercostal neuralgia, congenital fusion deformity of the cervical spine, instability of the lower cervical spine, etc.

Common symptoms

Pain is radioactive and dissipates from the proximal to the distal end of the limb

Causes of radiation pain and common diseases

Intercostal neuralgia

Rib burning (pain from back to front, radiating semicircular along the corresponding intercostal space) The intercostal space may have tenderness, stomach pain, burning pain, and hypersensitivity.

2. Congenital malformation of cervical spine

Short neck, radiation pain, neck soreness, pillow fall, etc.

3. Lower cervical spine instability

Neck aches, neck stiffness, radiation pain, etc.

Radiation pain test

Perform physical examinations on painful areas, such as cervical, shoulder, and lumbar spine motion examinations, joint X-rays, cervical spine CT, lumbar spine CT, and electromyography.

Differential diagnosis of radiation pain

Radiation pain in the upper limbs

Indicate lesions in the plexus of the neck or shoulder. Such as cervical syndrome.

2. Radiation pain in lower limbs

Mostly the thoracolumbar and sacral nerves are oppressed, such as lumbar disc herniation, spinal cord tumors, sacroiliitis, etc., and the nerves are subjected to compressive damage or inflammation, and the patient has a string of radioactive pain.

Radiation pain treatment principles

Find the primary disease causing radiation pain and treat the cause.