What is the rustling of the neck when you turn your head?

For patients with neck rustling when turning their heads, it is mostly due to strain, stiffness, and spasm of the ligaments and joint capsule of the neck. This causes edema in the ligaments and joint capsule of the neck, which leads to abnormal friction in the neck when turning the head, causing a rustling sound. Most of them are caused by prolonged head-down activities, high sleeping pillows or cold in the neck. Therefore, after this condition occurs, you should pay more attention to keep warm, avoid getting cold, avoid prolonged head-down activities or prolonged neck work in one position, and avoid sleeping on a pillow that is too high to avoid aggravating the spasm and stiffness of the ligaments and joint capsule of the neck and causing calcification of the ligaments and joint capsule of the neck. Once calcification occurs, the ligaments and joint capsule of the neck will become less relaxed, which will later cause changes in the curvature of the vertebrae of the neck, resulting in pressure on the nerves or blood vessels in the neck and causing obvious clinical symptoms.