Current and future advances in practice: cervical spondylosis and mechanical neck pain

Cervical spondylosis and mechanical neck pain are generic diagnostic terms, as a more specific diagnosis is often not possible with standard imaging. First-line management is usually conservative, in the form of physical therapies. Rehabilitation is multimodal to address the functional changes that occur in the cervical movement/articular, nervous, neuromuscular and sensorimotor systems in response to pain and pathology. Rehabilitation programmes are patient-specific and include self-management and maintenance programmes in a quest to decrease recurrence rates.