Symptom
Neck stiffness
Painful limitation of active and passive cervical spine motion due to muscular spasm, trauma (whiplash), meningeal irritation from meningitis, or cervical spine disorders (osteoarthritis, cervical spondylosis, herniated disc).
Also known as: Stiff neck, Nuchal rigidity, Meningismus
Referencing diagnoses
- Brain abscess
- Encephalitis
- Endocarditis
- Herpes simplex
- Herpes zoster
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Kawasaki disease
- Lyme disease
- Meningitis
- Pharyngitis
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Syphilis
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.