Headache And Neck Pain

Headache and neck pain usually does not come together. 

However, if you experience both together, there is a high chance that both are related to some kind of disease.

Brain tissue and skull is not the issue that cause headache as there is no nerve fibers located at these brain tissues. At most time, headaches are related to the input of nerve fibers that are located in your scalp; these nerves are then linked to the other parts of body, including the neck muscle.

Headache and neck pain comes together when there is a problem in the neck which triggers the nerve cells that were linked to your scalp.

Headache and neck pain happens together due to several causes. Stress could be one of the factors. When individuals fail to manage their stress level, tension headaches could occur. This headache will pressure the muscle in your neck, causing it to be stiff. Therefore, headache, neck pain and pressure are the most common tension headache symptoms to identify tension headache.

Next, incorrect body position can bring the pain as well. When your head and neck are in awkward position more a long period of time, for example, balancing the phone in between the ears and shoulder, this then leads to both head and neck pain. Moreover, sleeping in inadequate position, such as overly flattened pillow that was provided on plane can also lead to poor pose hence triggers the pain.

Besides that, lighting also plays as a factor in causing pain in head and neck. When a person reads or doing any other activities with dim light, it can lead to eye strain and hence causing tension. This then leads to the first factor above.

In fact, pain in the head and neck does not come purely from incorrect posture, lighting or headaches such as migraine and tension headache only. It can be due to temporomandibular joint disorders (TJM) where too much jaw tightening or poor jaw placement affects the jaw and neck, triggering the nerves. It is not surprising to find that TJM is associated with headache as well.

Unlike TJM, meningitis is a more critical, life threatening disease. The cause was due to meninges infection, that delicates the tissue that encloses the brain. The symptoms to identify meningitis include headache, neck stiffness, and also fever.

Last by not least, a condition known as post-traumatic headache, where the individual undergone a trauma or injured the neck during an accident, can also lead to long-term headache, neck and shoulder pain.