Cervical spondylosis is a condition involving changes in the bones, discs, and joints of the neck. With age, the discs of the cervical spine gradually break down, lose fluid, and become stiffer. Besides this, abnormal growths can cause narrowing of the interior of the spinal column. Cervical spondylosis most often causes neck pain and stiffness.

Risk factors: Increasing age, Injury to the neck, poor posture

Signs & Symptoms

May vary from mild to severe, and may flare up on over using your neck, or spraining a neck muscle or ligament.

• Pain in the neck spreading to the base of the skull and shoulders, and which is either fluctuating or chronic. The pain worsens on moving the neck, and may spread down the arm, hand and/or fingers.
• Neck stiffness especially after a night’s sleep.
• Headaches of intermittent kind and which usually start at the back of the head just above the neck, traveling to the top to the forehead.
• Numbness, tingling or weakness may occur in part of the arm or hand
• Pain shooting down into one or both arms.