The Neck Pain Handbook
ebook ∣ Your Guide in Understanding and Treating Neck Pain · DiaMedica Guide to Optimum Wellness
By Grant Cooper

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The Neck Pain Handbook discusses everything you need to know about neck pain, including its causes, how to treat it yourself, when it's time to see a doctor, and what your doctor can do to help. Most importantly, it discusses how you can prevent neck pain, so that once your pain is gone, it stays gone.
Neck pain is increasingly common as more of us work in offices that make it unnecessary to move from our computers and desks. Major topics discussed include a discussion of why the neck is one of the most common areas to develop pain as the result of our increasingly immobile lifestyle, and how pain is rooted in the neck's complex anatomy and function. With this information, it becomes clear why the strategies for dealing with it are recommended. These include:
In addition, for the 10-20% of people with neck pain that does not respond to conservative therapy, the authors discuss in detail options such as medications, injections, and—rarely needed—surgery