• Primary cause of pain in 36%–67% of patients with chronic neck pain.

General neck pain

• 1 year prevalence ranged from 30-50% in general population
• Neck pain w/ associated disability: 1 year prevalence: 2 to 11% in general population, and from 11-14% in workers who reported being limited in their activities because of neck pain
• Fourth leading cause of years lost to disability
• Prevalence is higher in females and peaks in middle age
• ~50% of individuals will experience an episode of neck pain that is clinically important
• 15.1% of the US general pop. affected by neck pain every 3 months
• 16.2% Global incidence rate of neck pain