Chronic Neck Pain
From WikiMSK
Chronic neck pain is defined when neck pain has persisted for more than three months. Around 20-40% of patients with acute neck pain continue on to have chronic neck pain.
Aetiology
There is no evidence to support the view that chronic neck pain, whether post-traumatic or not, is secondary to somatization, conversion disorder, malingering, hypochondriasis, or due to secondary gain. A psychosocial label is not falsifiable, i.e. it cannot be refuted, and so it a belief rather than a valid diagnosis. For many patients a biomedical diagnosis cannot be made, but the Musculoskeletal Medicine view is generally that this is due to the infancy of research in this area, rather than the primary cause being nebulous psychosocial factors.
