Symptoms: One common symptom is pain around the shoulder blade. Patients will complain of pain along the arm and in the fingers. The pain might increase on standing sitting, sneezing, coughing, or backward tilting of the neck.

Another common symptom is muscle weakness. Muscle weakness makes it hard to lift the arms or hold objects firmly.

Other common signs include:

a stiff neck that becomes worse headaches that mostly occur in the back of the head tingling or numbness that mainly affects shoulders and arms,

although it can also occur in the legsSymptoms that occur less frequently often include a loss of balance and a loss of bladder or bowel control.

If you have the sudden onset o numbness or tingling in the shoulder, arms or legs or if you lose bowel or bladder control, talk to your doctor and seek medical attention as soon as possible.