Table 1.

Differential Diagnosis of Neck Pain

Biomechanical causes
    Axial neck pain
    Whiplash associated disorder (WAD)
    Radiculopathy
    Cervical myelopathy
    Infection
    Neoplasm
Rheumatic causes
    Rheumatoid arthritis
    Ankylosing spondylitis
    Spondyloarthropathies
    Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
Dystonia
Trauma
Torticollis
Referred pain
Fibromyalgia