—may occur as frequently as low back pain, affecting up to 50% of adults at some point in their life. Neck pain may be the result of many conditions, both benign (e.g., poor posture) and serious (e.g., traumatic injury) cervical next sprains, strains occur from hyperflexion and hyperextension injury, spondylosis, rheumatoid arthritis, tumor, osteoporosis, osteomyelitis, meningitis.