cervical spine from the occiput to the upper thoracic spine?

Answer 1

Sorry i don't know exactly what you wanted to ask!
check this site for more information on cervical pain
http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article1442.html

if you want the anatomy:
The cervical spine begins at the base of the skull. Seven vertebrae make up the cervical spine with eight pairs of cervical nerves. The individual cervical vertebrae are abbreviated C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 and C7. so yes from occiput to the upper thoracic spine

Answer 2

If you have pain from the occiput to the upper thoracic spine then you likely suffer from occasional headaches too. More than likely the culprit is the subcranial region of your spine which includes the OA (Occiput on atlas) and AA (atlas on axis) joints. You should visit your physician and ask for a referral to see a good physiatrist. The physiatrist should be able to give you a more exacting diagnosis and rule out other conflicting problems. The physiatrist more than likely knows and commonly refers patients to the best physical therapists available. Usually physical therapists that have several years of experience and advanced manual therapy skills as, if they work with the physiatrist often, they treat many problems such as yours on a daily basis.

I do NOT recommend you visit a chirporactor. If you want to know the truth behind chiropractic care and chiropractors, then check out the following links.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01quackeryrela...
http://www.chirobase.org/01general/chiro...
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsid....
http://www.chirobase.org/01general/skept...
http://www.quackwatch.org/01quackeryrela...
http://www.chirobase.org/06dd/chirovet.h...

Also, chiropractors state that research has justified their techniques, check out the following;

During the past few years, two reports about the treatment of low-back pain have placed chiropractic in a favorable light. One, issued by the RAND Corporation, concluded that spinal manipulation was appropriate for some cases of low-back pain. The other, produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), judged manipulation useful for controlling symptoms while awaiting the spontaneous recovery that occurs within a month in most patients with low-back problems.
Although chiropractors have promoted these reports as endorsements of chiropractic, they are not. They merely support the use of manipulation in carefully selected patients. Only a few of the research studies on which their conclusions were based involved manipulation by chiropractors; most were done by medical doctors and physical therapists whose practices are not identical to those of chiropractors. Most chiropractors manipulate the vast majority of patients who walk through their door, some use techniques that have not been studied scientifically, and many urge all of their patients to undergo monthly or even weekly "preventive maintenance" visits throughout their life. In addition, many chiropractors emphasize a technique that is more vigorous (and therefore less safe) than the controlled manipulation used by other practitioners. The only places where "chiropractic" and "chiropractors" are mentioned in the body of the AHCPR report

Answer 3

That sounds very painful. I would see a doctor abou that.

Answer 4

I have got scoloios its near enough the same thing and horrible!