As well as causing you discomfort, neck pain can also lead to related headaches for many patients. Interestingly, women are four times more likely to suffer from these type of headaches but male patients can encounter them too. What is a neck pain headache? There are many different types of headaches and they can share Read More

Many patients who are suffering with neck pain will also experience headache. Female patients are four times as likely to experience headache in conjunction with neck pain. Headache may result from referred pain from the bony structures and soft tissues of the neck. According to the International Headache Classification, headaches due to neck disorders are Read More

Neck pain is a troublesome and stressful condition that affects many patients in varying ways. We took a look at the ways that clinicians measure the neck pain that a patient feels in an earlier blog. Now we are going to investigate how doctors measure the impact of neck pain on a patient’s ability to Read More

In a previous article in the Broadgate Journal, we reviewed how pain is measured and quantified. This article will take a look at how clinicians are able to measure the ability of patients to manage daily activities and work. These measuring instruments have been developed by the research community in order to compare the clinical Read More

The neck is a part of the body that bears a lot of weight and over time it can begin to suffer from wear and tear. This degeneration of the neck is known as cervical spondylosis, which begins around the age of 40 and gets worse with age. Spondylosis affects the vertebrae, discs and joints Read More

Degeneration of the neck is called cervical spondylosis and, as expected, it increases with age. In most individuals, this process begins around the age of 40 and continues thereafter. Men and women are affected equally and spondylosis affects the vertebrae, the discs and the joints of the neck. Spondylosis should not be confused with inflammatory Read More

Neck pain is one of the most common complaints we see at Broadgate Spine & Joint Clinic and we treat patients with varying levels of pain all the time. So how do we measure the pain so we can accurately judge how much neck pain a patient is experiencing? How We Measure Neck Pain The Read More

The most common complaint that patients have when consulting a clinician at the Broadgate Spine & Joint Clinic is PAIN. Neck pain is the most common complaint of City workers, whereas in rural areas, lower back pain is more common. In order to organise appropriate treatment, the question that the clinician must ask is, just Read More

Neck pain is one of the most common complaints reported by our patients here at Broadgate Spine & Joint Clinic and we believe that so many patients present with a bad neck because City workers spend so many hours sitting at a desk in stressful environments. Being confined to a constrained position in this way Read More

Neck pain – often spreading to the upper shoulder area – is the most common presenting complaint that we see at the Broadgate Spine & Joint Clinic. Most of us are of the opinion that this is due to City workers having to work long hours in constrained postures in rather stressful environments. In order Read More