It’s happening to younger and younger people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last year: strokes. Watch NBC6 free wherever you are WATCH HERE WATCH HERE“The night before the stroke, I felt a little bit of neck pain. Obrzut says the problem is when a young person is having a stroke, they think it’s something else. Yes, better every day,” said Farrell. But the most common cause of strokes in young people is actually an injury to an artery, a dissection,” said Obrzut.