Yes. Shoulder pain can sometimes originate from the neck. This may be due to a combination of musculature and or nerve roots that arise from the neck vertebrae and travel down the shoulder and length of the arm.

The forearm is a complex anatomical location within our bodies. Throughout, many muscles travel the length of the forearm both front and back. In combination with nerves and stability structures such as ligaments, often, pain in one area can be felt transferred in locations further down the ‘chain’, such as the wrist and or hand.

Hip and knee joints are load bearing joints which also assist in our ability to move in different planes such as to bend forward, backwards and rotate (with the help of the spine!). Often, pain in one or both joints can be down to a multitude of things from age to traumatic injury.

Like the hip and knee joint, the ankle and foot joints withstand high volumes of load bearing as we navigate daily tasks. Where the foot and ankle are placed upon non flat terrain, this can expose us to ‘rolling’ the ankle. Here, stability structures such as ligaments in the foot and ankle become injured through excessive stretch and or overload resulting in pain when load bearing, swelling and or bruising.

The average human spine has 33 vertebrae in total. 7 cervical (neck), 12 thoracic (mid back), 5 lumbar (lower back), 5 sacral (lower back/hip junction) and 4 coccygeal (tail bone). The main spinal cord originates at the base of our skull where the brain sits, and runs the length of the spine, terminating in our lumbar vertebrae (lower back). Pain commonly presents when nerve structures have become compressed by things such as discs and or musculature.