Epidemiology

Internal medicine

Pathology

Depression (economics)

Population

Psychiatry

Macroeconomics

Intensive care medicine

Physical therapy

Economics

Alternative medicine

Neck pain

Anxiety

Sports medicine

Medicine

Environmental health

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, having an age-standardised prevalence rate of 27.0 per 1000 population in 2019. This literature review describes the global epidemiology and trends associated with neck pain, before exploring the psychological and biological risk factors associated with the initiation and progression of neck pain.

Neck pain: global epidemiology, trends and risk factors