[Chronic pain sequelae after trauma of the cervical spine].

Abstract

This presentation summarises the opinions concerning chronic pain after mild cervical trauma without neurological and radiological findings. Clinicians are often surprised by the disabling character of the pain, despite the lack of severe lesions. The initial lesions lead in some cases to chronic headache having different features associated with cervical pain, but in our opinion this pain does not have a disabling nature. When the disabling character is present, we postulated that it is associated with other psychological, social and professional factors. In fact, the pathogenesis of this chronic disorder is multifactorial. Its treatment doesn't lead to healing but to better management of patient life with chronic pain.