can arthritis make your neck stiff?
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When you think of arthritis, you might think of creaky knees or painful, swollen fingers. But if your neck is feeling stiff or you have pain when you turn your head, this neck pain may be caused by arthritis too. Like the rest of the body, the disks and joints in the neck degenerate due wear and tear.
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When the pain is localized to the neck and the muscles next to the neck (the trapezius muscles), arthritis is usually causing the problem. Sometimes the neck gets irritated enough that the nerves become involved, and when that happens there may be pain that radiates down the arm to the wrist or fingers.
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Soft Tissue Stiffness and Pain While it may not seem like fascia would play a role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), it actually does. For one thing, “any time you have pain and swelling in joints, it can affect the soft tissues [including fascia] around them,” Dr. Kaplan says.
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Key points about juvenile idiopathic arthritis It causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than 6 weeks. The disease may affect a few joints or many joints. It may cause symptoms all over the body. The most common symptoms include swollen, stiff, warm, red, and painful joints.
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Signs and symptoms of neck pain may be stiffness, tightness, aching, burning or stabbing or shooting pains, pressure, or tingling. Muscles can feel sore or tense in the neck, face, or shoulders.
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['neck pain and stiffness, which often worsens with activity.', 'grinding sound, as bones scrape against each other with movement of the neck.', 'headaches.', 'muscle spasms in the neck and shoulders.']
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Joint stiffness One of the most common complaints with aging is osteoarthritis. It typically affects the hands, knees or hips. The onset of osteoarthritis is gradual and is usually experienced as a dull, achy pain, rather than sudden severe pains.
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['Back pain or stiffness. Enteropathic arthritis may cause back pain or stiffness, especially in the mornings, but the discomfort usually gets better as you move throughout the day. ... ', 'Swollen, red, painful joints.']
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Although stiff joints are a classic symptom of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), you can also get them for other reasons. If it's RA, joint stiffness and other symptoms such as pain or fatigue tend to develop and worsen over several weeks or months. It's usually most noticeable in the morning.
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Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. This means your immune system (which usually fights infection) attacks the cells that line your joints by mistake, making the joints swollen, stiff and painful. Over time, this can damage the joints, cartilage and nearby bone.
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People with this immune disorder often also experience back pain. If you have RA, back pain can result from your body's immune system attacking the synovial lining of the small joints of your spine. In advanced cases, this can even lead to compression of the spinal cord and nerve roots.
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A stiff neck often occurs when one of the muscles becomes strained or tense. Stiffness can also develop if one or more of the vertebrae is injured. A stiff neck may become painful when a person tries to move their neck or head. Usually, a stiff neck results from a minor injury or incident.
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Early symptoms can be similar to the flu. However, having a stiff neck in addition to flu-like symptoms could be a key clue that meningitis is the problem and should be checked by a doctor. Patients should seek immediate medical attention if a stiff neck is accompanied by a fever, headache and/or nausea.
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Arthritis can cause pain and inflammation in any joint in your body, but it's especially common in the knee joints. Swelling, stiffness, and pain can prevent you from doing daily activities, including walking for long distances and going up and down the stairs. It may also affect how you sleep at night.
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Rheumatoid arthritis and back pain If you have RA, back pain can result from your body's immune system attacking the synovial lining of the small joints of your spine. In advanced cases, this can even lead to compression of the spinal cord and nerve roots.
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms in the Spine In advanced cases, the joint deterioration in the spine can lead to compression of the spinal cord and/or the spinal nerve roots. The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in the spine are generally similar to the symptoms of osteoarthritis (also called degenerative arthritis).
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Stiffness from rheumatoid arthritis can last for hours. “People can't bend their joints, especially in the arms and legs. Or they can't make a fist. They feel clumsy,” says Dr.