The association of neck pain with symptoms of temporomandibular dysfunction in the general adult population was evaluated in a sample of 483 subjects selected from the population living in the municipality of Segrate, northern Italy. Subjects were interviewed by a standard questionnaire about oral conditions, temporomandibular symptomatology and neck pain. Symptoms related to the Helkimo Anamne...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a relatively frequent disease affecting individuals older than 50 years and is characterized by inflammatory involvement of the shoulder and hip girdles and the neck. Clinical manifestations are represented by pain and morning stiffness in this regions. An extensive and comprehensive assessment of the inflammatory status is crucial in PMR patients, including imag...

This review discusses the causes, outcome and prevention of whiplash injury, which costs the economy of the United Kingdom approximately pound 3.64 billion per annum. Most cases occur as the result of rear-end vehicle collisions at speeds of less than 14 mph. Patients present with neck pain and stiffness, occipital headache, thoracolumbar back pain and upper-limb pain and paraesthesia. Over 66%...

reports have emphasised the severity of neurological and systemic disorder in patients with toxocaral meningoencephalitis.1 2 " Apart from neck stiffness our patient was surprisingly well with no evidence of encephalitis. Her diagnosis might have been that of an atypical viral meningitis had Romanovsky staining not been performed. We think that this investigation may be useful in culture negati...

The crowned dens syndrome (CDS), also known as periodontoid calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate crystal deposition disease, is typified clinically by severe cervical pain, neck stiffness and atlantoaxial synovial calcification which could be misdiagnosed as meningitis, epidural abscess, polymyalgia rheumatica, giant cell arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cervical spondylitis or metastatic spinal tum...

Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia is a very rare manifestation of meningococcal meningitis, with only a few cases reported in the literature. In almost all previously reported cases, other clinical manifestations of meningitis, such as fever, headache, and neck stiffness preceded acute myelopathy. In this paper, we report a case of acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manif...

A 43 year old man developed a sudden, severe headache while running in an orienteering competition. He continued to compete for a further 90 minutes before the worsening headache and the onset of vomiting forced him to seek medical help. He had moderate neck stiffness and no neurological deficit when admitted to hospital. Lumbar puncture showed uniformly bloodstained CSF, but CT scan and cerebr...

Published case studies involving diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) along with symptomatic ossification of the stylohyoid ligament, or "Eagle syndrome," are rare. In this report, we document a case of bilateral Eagle syndrome and advanced DISH in the cervical spine of an 80-year-old man who presented with severe neck stiffness and intermittent asphyxia. The key imaging and clinical...

Séverine Durier, Céline Fassot, Stéphane Laurent, Pierre Boutouyrie, Jean-Paul Couetil, Erika Expression and Arterial Stiffness Physiological Genomics of Human Arteries : Quantitative Relationship Between Gene Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2003 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue...