Often called thoracic pain or middle back pain, people experience upper back pain between the top of their lumbar spine and the base of their neck. A person’s upper spine is very stable and strong because it has to support their upper body weight. It also anchors...
Prolonged or repeated movement to the neck’s joints, ligaments, muscles, bones or tendons usually caused by activities, account for the majority of the causes of neck pain. They can cause neck muscle spasms, a strain, neck joint inflammation, or a sprain. Tension...
Neck, left shoulder and upper back pain are a common condition that many Americans will suffer from at some point during their life. The pain caused from this can be from mild and achy to severe and chronic or anywhere in between. The causes of neck, left shoulder and...
Regardless of the causes of upper back pain, it is still as miserable and agonizing as any other type of back pain. Although not as common as lower back or neck pain, it can cause significant soreness, discomfort, agony, and inconvenience and requires proper...
A headache is pain felt in the head but sometimes pain that radiates to the upper back or neck causes head and neck pain symptoms. Muscular headaches such as tension headaches that often involve the tensing or tightening of neck and facial muscles are a common form of... 