Once I had a car accident from when my problem of severe neck and upper back pain started. Due to acute pain I started altering my sitting position from upright to a sort of curved stance. This kind of sudden accidents can change anyone's life as this pain seems to be incurable at times.

I do have friends and clients who suffer neck pains but their neck pain causes and symptoms are extremely diverse as are the pain they experience.

These pains usually happen due to the injury to the neck disc or nerve problems in the neck, head and in the back portions of the body. This kind of pain can also arise from stress, awkward sleeping position and also for sitting long time in front of computers.

Neck pain can be severe at a time. It can be a sudden or chronic where it can last for more then three months depending on the cause. Some time exact diagnosis cannot be done. While sometime, it is diagnosed as Fibromyalgia for certain pains.

Sufferers experience pains like muscle stiffness, soreness, stiff to the touch, acute pain strong enough to force the neck to turn to one side, pain radiating down the back and/or arms, one or both-sided headaches, pain in the base of the skull, tingling arms and/or fingers and general weakness in the neck and/or arms.

Neck pains are more common in women then in men.

These kinds of neck pain are very problematic and may disappear within two to three days. But sometimes this pain can be caused by a life threatening reason. This are very rare but happens at times.

Meningitis is such a rare kind of pain. This creates an inflammation in brain and spinal chord and is caused by viral as well as bacterial infection. Viral disease is generally common but not devastating. But bacterial meningitis is something very uncommon and can kill the patient as well.

Abnormal rash development, fever, nausea, vomiting, severe neck pain and sensitivity to light are the other symptoms to look for if you think that you are suffering from this dreaded problem.

Neck pain also indicates serious medical conditions arising from head trauma. If your neck pain is accompanies with the other symptoms like headache, nausea, hearing or balance, vomiting, pain localized behind one eye, loss or complications in vision and weakness in arm and/or leg muscles; you better rush to the doctor immediately.

What precautions can be taken to avoid neck pain? For the pain that is not caused by serious neck injury or illness, regular routine should be followed as much as possible unless ones regular routine is the reason behind this pain. For such times, consider ergonomic solutions as the only solution.

Do not use neck collar frequently because this will further weaken the neck muscles. Daily exercise can also prevent such kind of pain and also allow improving fitness of the neck muscles.

One fact that you have to understand is that in such pains, all the muscles around your neck, back and head are connected together. So one cannot ignore these muscles as well. My Neck Pain Relief program heals this kind of pain in a very natural way. Since it's on the way, I hope you will give a look in this programme as I did and I am hopeful that these pains will go away as they did in my case.