To understand the cervical spine, you first need to understand the spine.
In the spine, the vertebrae between the skull and the thoracic vertebrae are called cervical vertebrae. The cervical vertebrae consist of 7 cervical vertebrae and 6 intervertebral discs (including the intervertebral disc between the 7th cervical vertebrae and the 1st thoracic vertebrae, and There is no intervertebral disc between the 1st and 2nd cervical vertebrae) and the associated ligaments.
What you call "having played computer games for four years in college has led to neck pain" is exactly the cervical spondylosis caused by the strain of the neck muscles caused by long-term sitting and poor posture, which belongs to the earliest stage of cervical spondylosis. , cervical spondylosis.
Therefore, there are seven cervical vertebrae in each body, which are located in the part of the neck that people often call. Most of the neck pain is caused by cervical spondylosis.