Abstract
This article provides a comprehensive review of rheumatologic considerations for a clinician when evaluating a patient with neck pain. Clearly, anatomic derangements of the cervical spine should be considered when a patient complains of cervicalgia. However, one must also entertain the possibility of a systemic illness as the cause of the pain. Examples of diseases that may present with a prominent feature of neck pain are discussed, including rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, myositis, and fibromyalgia. Evidence of an underlying rheumatic illness may guide the clinician in a different therapeutic direction.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 485-502 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1 2011 |
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Keywords
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Myositis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Rehabilitation
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
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Neck Pain from a Rheumatologic Perspective. / Oberstein, Elana M.; Carpintero, Maria F; Hopkins, Aviva.
In: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, Vol. 22, No. 3, 01.08.2011, p. 485-502.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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