Neck Pain
Neck Pain That Makes It Hard to Check Your Blind Spot
Reviewed by Dr. Dustin Dukart, DC
Turning your head shouldn’t be the hard part of merging. Neither should looking up at a cabinet, or one bad night’s sleep undoing a week of feeling fine. If that’s where you’re at, there’s usually a real, findable reason.
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★★★★★
I live in St. Paul Park and was looking for a chiropractor near me to help with my neck pain. I woke up one morning unable to turn my head and luckily was able to see Dr. Dustin that same day. He provided education, reassurance, and gentle manual therapy work which helped ease my pain.
— Ana S. · Google
We Screen for the Rare but Serious Stuff First
Before any hands-on treatment, we screen for the rare but serious causes of neck pain — that’s standard here, not just for cases that look complicated. From there we figure out which treatment approach actually fits your case, since not everyone benefits from the same technique, and build in the exercise piece that helps keep it from coming back.
If your neck pain started after a car accident, comes paired with headaches that keep returning or jaw pain, or sends numbness and tingling down an arm (which can mean a disc pressing on a nerve), all are worth mentioning at that first visit — each one changes what we check for.
Evidence-Informed Care
Neck pain responds best to treatment combined with targeted exercise, not manipulation on its own — that’s part of why exercise is built into the plan from the start, not offered as an afterthought.
Ready When You Are
Most new patients are seen within a few days.
More reading: How screen posture causes neck and shoulder pain.
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References
- Blanpied PR, et al. Neck Pain: Revision 2017 — Clinical Practice Guidelines. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2017;47(7):A1-A83. View source
- Gross A, et al. Manipulation and mobilisation for neck pain contrasted against an inactive control or another active treatment. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015. View source
- Cote P, et al. Management of neck pain and associated disorders: a clinical practice guideline from the OPTIMa Collaboration. Eur Spine J. 2016;25(7):2000-2022.