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In most cases if your neck pains are resulted in repeated or prolonged movements to the neck’s muscles, ligaments,
tendons, bones, or joints, it is not advisable or necessary for you to perform a surgery.
Neck Pain Home Remedies
Neck Pain and Injuries
Whiplash Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Home and Medical Treatment for Whiplash
Neck Exercises for Neck Pain Relief
Neck Pain Treatment Options
How is the Neck Pain Diagnosed?
Neck Pain Symptoms and Signs
Surgery for Neck Pain Relief
Medications for Neck Pain Relief
Neck Pain Prevention and Relief
Physical Therapy for Neck Pain Treatment
Home Remedies for Neck Pain
Effective Neck Pain Treatment Options
Causes of Neck Pain

● However, if your neck pains are caused by following cases, surgery should be within your consideration.

— If your neck pain is caused by traumatic injury which may bring about fracture or abnormal motion, surgery can help you stabilize the spine and restrain a bone fracture from causing possible instability or paralysis.

— Your pain is caused by pressure on the spinal nerve roots or spinal cord which may bring about pain, numbness in neck area, weakness in arm or hand, persisting severe pain for months in spite of treatment, or even lead to loss of bladder or bowel control.

— Your pain is caused because of narrowing of the spinal canal (cervical spinal stenosis) or arthritis of the neck.

● Or surgery is available if your neck pain is resulted in pressure on the nerve roots or injury or illness, including:

— Discectomy, no matter whether it is with or without fusion. See the surgery section of the topics about herniated disc if you want to get further information.

— Cervical spinal fusion, when the irrelevant bones in the neck are connected together.

— Spinal decompression, in which removing part of a bone or disc to reduce the pressure on the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots.

In most cases, many sufferers may think that it would be better to have a disc replacement surgery rather than spinal fusion. Disc replacement surgery is to remove a seriously damaged spinal disc and then replace it with an man-made disc. However, this surgery is still in immature stage, and only be done by those specially trained surgeons. What’s more, there are no studies to show its long term effects on every sufferer.

It is investigated that success probability of a surgery in relieving pain caused by pressure on the nerve roots is about 80% to 90%. However, there is no evidence to show that surgery can treat neck pain radically, and it is more likely that the pain will return again.

Some sufferers with chronic facet joint pain has tried a minor surgical technique (also called percutaneous radiofrequency neurotomy). Neck pain after whiplash is often resulted from the facet joint which is a part of the spine. However, it is a high demanding surgery, and only can be done by specially trained surgeons. Although 3/5 sufferers with whiplash said their pains is relieved for more than six months after the minor surgical technique, there is no sufficient evidence to support that their pain will never come back six months later.