Top 5 Signs Of Neck Arthritis | El Paso Manual Physical Therapy

Are you looking for help for a possible neck arthritis situation? If you find that you have a stiff, achy neck, and you have trouble turning it, its been bothering your for a while now, then this might be the right video to help you out.

I'm going to cover the top five signs of neck osteoarthritis, commonly known as arthritis. It’s a little different from rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, there are many different variations of arthritis. But the most common one, by far, is osteoarthritis.

#1 Consistent Neck Stiffness
The way this looks, and feels is, that if you turn your head to one side, and it just doesn’t go as far as the other side. The one side turns well and the other one not so good, or both are limited, that happens occasionally too.

#2 Shoulder Pain
Commonly, we see people who have neck arthritis, that also develop shoulder problems. Occasionally they have a really bad one, such as a rotator cuff tear, impinchement problem, a nerve issue that comes off their neck and begins to affect the shoulder.

#3 Trouble Sleeping At Night
If you have been trying different pillows, different mattresses, different sleeping positions, and you just have restless nights, loosing hours, and hours of sleep weekly because of the stiff neck problem, this arthritis problem, there is a very high chance that you’ve got arthritis developing in your neck joints.

#4 Pain Medication Stopped Working
You may have been able to take the edge off, taking a Tylenol, or Ibuprofen, of some similar over-the-counter kind of medication, but you found that it doesn’t do anything anymore. You have been taking them regularly, or as needed, and it doesn’t do anything for you anymore. You get at the end of the day, or you get at the end of the night, and the neck still feels achy, stiff, and painful, and you have trouble turning, and sleeping hasn’t gotten any better, and you are thinking of going to the doctor’s office to get some prescription strength medication.

#5 Stretching Hasn’t Helped
You may have thought “well, I can’t turn this way, let me stretch it into that direction and see if it will move better” and it just hurts, and its uncomfortable to move in that direction. Maybe you feel like some pinching or burning sensation in the neck area. Maybe your shoulders are getting affected by these stretches. Its more uncomfortable than helpful to do the stretching, then there is a very high chance, that this is a neck arthritis problem, and stretches aren’t going to get you the relieve that you are looking for.

So, you are probably thinking “Well, what do I do? If I have neck arthritis, if I have three, four, or even five of these signs that you’ve just talked about, what do I do next?”

Here at the clinic, at El Paso Manual Physical Therapy, we help people with neck arthritis all the time! There can be many different factors that contribute to the neck arthritis problem, so its hard to tell you over a video like this, exactly what to do at home, and exactly what’s going on in your neck.

If you are looking for help right now, I invite you to download our free Neck Pain Guide – a e-book that covers 10 ways to relief neck and shoulder pain. https://epmanualpt.lpages.co/neck-pai...

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