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What Causes Cracking Sound In Neck Leading To Neck And Shoulder Pain?

I have a lot of neck- shoulder pain for almost a month now. One night I herd a crack sound on my neck during sleep and I couldn t move my head , my neck was hurting really bad and the pain goes down to the right shoulder. From that night I cannot sleep well and often I had bad pain in shoulder neck and I even cannot turn my head to the right!! What s your suggestion? Are those symptom s of AS ?
Mon, 14 Dec 2015
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Possibly there been some intervertebral disc prolapse which got aggravated by bad neck posture and may be compressing any exiting nerve root. I advise you to use a soft cervical collar to restrict the neck movements and get MRI cervical spine done.
In AS (Ankylosing spondylitis) there can be involvement of cervical spine, but its a gradually progressive disease, for which you not told any previous neck/back symptoms like morning stiffness etc. So AS is less likely possibility.
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What Causes Cracking Sound In Neck Leading To Neck And Shoulder Pain?

Possibly there been some intervertebral disc prolapse which got aggravated by bad neck posture and may be compressing any exiting nerve root. I advise you to use a soft cervical collar to restrict the neck movements and get MRI cervical spine done. In AS (Ankylosing spondylitis) there can be involvement of cervical spine, but its a gradually progressive disease, for which you not told any previous neck/back symptoms like morning stiffness etc. So AS is less likely possibility.