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If you are someone who experiences this pain repeatedly, talk to your healthcare professional about some of your habits, your work ergonomics, sleeping habits etc, because there may be some easy changes that you can make to help to prevent this pain from occurring again in the future. moving house), can be a precursor for rib pain. For ribs specifically, in my clinical practice I have found that a period of lifting outside of someone’s normal habits (i.e. This type of pain can also be associated with a history of whiplash or cervical spine trauma. On the opposite end of the spectrum, facet & rib joint pain also can tend to follow a quick jerking movements such as a quick head turn or a restless night with tossing & turning. It can be a gradual build up over time long periods at a desk coupled with a stressful period or sleeping on an unsuitable pillow for an extended period of time could be some of the many reasons for this type of pain. There are many varied reasons why these sprains & strains occur. You may also have trouble lifting your arms up above your head because of referred pain in your neck and shoulder. When a rib is the culprit in your neck pain, you’ll usually feel quite a lot of pain at the deepest point of your inspiratory breath and pain may radiate down the inside of your shoulder blade. In the same way that facet joints can irritated, overstretched or sprained, so too can these spinal-rib articulations. “Ribs! That high!” This is what I most commonly hear from my patients when we’re talking about neck pain, but yes, it’s true – your first rib sits right at the base of your neck and rib dysfunction can affect movements in your neck.Įach rib is attached to its corresponding vertebrae via two joints the costotransverse and costovertebral joints. That being said, when your brain is in protection mode, most movements cause quite a lot of pain. The worst movements for sore facet joints tend to be rotating or side-bending to one side more than the other and extension or looking up towards the ceiling. The muscle spasm in conjunction with the pain from the facet joint usually means a dull ache through the whole area at rest, and a sharp pain with most neck and sometimes shoulder movements. A sprain in your neck is a sign of danger for your brain and so it often sends the muscles around the affected joint into spasm and sends down intense pain signals into the area. The trouble is that your brain tends to react a little more to a sprain in your neck or elsewhere in your spinal column. These joints can be irritated, over-stretched, or even sprained, just like you can sprain an ankle, a finger or your wrist. They slide and glide over one another to create spinal motion. Each vertebrae in your spine has a top and a bottom bony process called a facet which articulates with the facet of the vertebrae above and below. I will discuss the first two in more detail.įacet joints are the joints which are responsible for all of the movement in your spine.
The first two are the more likely suspects, but occasionally an intense muscular spasm can cause a similar sensation. That being said, in many cases, there are two or three culprits which usually cause this kind of intense pain facet joints, ribs & muscular spasm. This is particularly important if you have any accompanying symptoms, such as pins & needles, numbness or an intense and specifically located headache. It’s important to say up top, that every person is different and while many people present with the symptoms and diagnoses discussed in this blog, it’s always important to seek help from a medical professional for any acute pain. So take a seat, grab a heat pack and let’s talk about acute neck pain. In this blog, I’m going to cover some of the reasons this can occur, what could potentially be going on, some strategies to manage it in the moment and also some long term preventative measures. Regardless, it can be scary and incredibly intense to experience. Maybe it happens a couple of times a year, maybe more. You took some medication and maybe it helped a little, maybe it got you back to sleep or maybe you lay awake, wondering what was going on.Įither way, now it’s morning, you’ve woken up and you cannot look left or right without turning your whole body and you have intense pain in your neck and shoulders. Or maybe you were fine, but in the middle of the night you felt something sharp and then the pain gradually got worse. You asked your partner for a shoulder rub and it felt better for an hour or so. You noticed your neck getting tighter over the last couple of weeks. It’s happened again! You’ve woken up and can’t move your neck.
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