Mrs. Sheetal Aggarwal
(Disclaimer: The contributor is a long standing patient of Neck Pain and has written this article out of her interest, experience and research. She is one of our relieved patients and wanted it to be shared on our website as a gesture of thanks. The content here is based on her own experience and which should be judiciously followed) All the knowledge I am sharing is what I have learnt being a patient of neck pain all these years and my motive here is to help other people like me. Our back bone is called spinal column. It gives support to the skeleton. There are 33 vertebras in the spinal column out of which 7 are in the neck and are called cervical vertebras. Fibro cartilage disks are present between these vertebras and help in turning the head and our nerves going to the arms and hands come out of small opening in above structures, called foramen 
Any alteration in structure and function of the mentioned structure might lead to problems with the neck or sometimes arms and hands. If neck pain spreads up to the hands and there is tingling in the f