Neck Complaints

Your neck is a bridge. It connects the head with the body, thinking with feeling, the above with the below. Seven small vertebrae, embedded in a fine web of muscles, tendons, and nerves — and every day they carry the weight of your head. About six kilograms. Constantly. From morning until evening. And with every turn, every nod, every glance to the side, the neck is the mediator that makes it possible.

When it hurts, it is rarely just a matter of posture. Of course there is the crooked monitor, the pillow that sits too high, the tense muscle after a night on the wrong sofa. But almost everyone also knows the other form of neck pain — the kind that sets in when something weighs heavily. When something sits on the back of your neck. When someone sits on the back of your neck. Language has always known this. The body confirms it daily.