Mechanical overload pain
Symptoms that rise and fall with load spikes, often without a single traumatic moment.
Caseloads around the neck cluster into a handful of high-volume patterns rather than rare diagnoses.
Relative “burden” bars below are educational rankings for this encyclopedia, not epidemiological prevalence percentages.
Relative clinical burden
Mechanical overload pain88
Tendinopathy / insertional pain72
Joint osteoarthritis pattern64
Post-traumatic stiffness50
Nerve-related referral42
Post-operative pathway35
Common conditions
Tendinopathy / insertional pain
Load-related tendon irritability with morning stiffness or warm-up pattern pain.
Joint osteoarthritis pattern
Activity-related ache, brief stiffness and crepitus in older adults; exercise remains first-line in guidelines.
Post-traumatic stiffness
ROM loss after sprain, fracture or surgery that needs graded mobility plus strength.
Nerve-related referral
Paraesthesia or shooting pain suggesting neural tension or radicular contribution.
Post-operative pathway
Protocol-driven rehab after reconstruction, decompression or arthroplasty.
Named diagnoses still need clinical confirmation; overlapping patterns are the rule.
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