“Well, I went and they took a picture of my neck. I've got bulging discs. I've got degenerative disc disease. I've got all of these things.” I hear some version of this almost every week.
Your head weighs somewhere between eight and twelve pounds, about the same as a bowling ball. Held close to your body, that's manageable. Held out at arm's length, it gets heavy fast, even though the bowling ball itself never changed weight.
Sit up straight. Stop looking down at your phone. Get a better pillow. If you've dealt with neck pain for any length of time, you've heard some version of this advice more times than you can count. None of it is wrong exactly. It's just not where I'd point you first.
