32+ Neck Pain Lyme Disease UK. Lyme disease, also known as lyme borreliosis, is an infectious disease caused by the borrelia bacterium which is spread by ticks. Severe headaches and neck stiffness.
Lyme disease, or lyme borreliosis, is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks.
Pain can be localized to the cervical spine or may travel down an arm (radiculopathy). Borrelia burgdorferi and borrelia mayonii you're more likely to get lyme disease if you live or spend time in grassy and heavily wooded areas other symptoms. Neck pain is also a symptom of cervical spine instability which in some lyme disease patients, the neck problems were already there and now these neck problems are compounding their lyme disease symptoms. Headaches, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, chills or/and fever, even swollen lymph nodes.