Traveling can be stressful enough, and that’s only compounded when you’re trying to maintain your spinal bone spur treatment plan while on the go. If you’re driving out of town for work, you might not be able to concentrate if the neck pain or back pain from your bone spurs is bothering you. And if you’re taking a family vacation, nothing derails a good time like the tingling or muscle weakness that could be a result of nerve compression.
Chiropractic treatment may be useful for neck pain relief in children.
Smartphones, tablets, and other handheld devices may be to blame for your neck pain.
Are work stress, poor posture, and sleep deprivation issues for you? Is your smartphone causing your neck pain? Read more
Keeping your head in line can help reduce the risk of neck pain when swimming.
Tension headaches and neck pain are very common but many people, and their physicians, neglect to find out the underlying cause meaning that treatments for tension headaches and neck pain are either unsuccessful or never applied. The pain in a tension headache will usually commence at the back of the head and move forwards, engulfing the scalp, creating a sensation of tightness across the head, and maybe even extending into the neck and shoulders. Some tension headaches and neck pain are connected to Read more
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Proper Neck Posture at Work
Having poor posture is just one of the myriad reasons you can develop neck pain. It may be a simple task to recognize that you have poor posture, but it is rarely simple to correct it. For most people the bulk of their day is spent at work, so it makes sense to start assessing your posture as you sit at your desk, stand behind a counter, or carry heavy building supplies on site.
At your desk, or terminal, check to see if you are always looking down with your chin to your chest in order to see the screen. Conversely, you may have to strain your neck upwards to get a clear view. Ideally your screen should be at such an angle that you can keep your back straight and eyes forward at all times. Consider raising or lowering your chair, or the screen itself if this is not the case so that the top third of the screen is at a level with your eyes and the screen itself is around 18-24inches from your head. Read more
Stress Causing Neck Pain
If you suffer from chronic neck pain, particularly alongside headaches, and with no apparent physical cause it may be that your stress level is to blame. Stress in daily life, from pressure at work, school, or home, can cause tension in the neck muscles, which leads to fatigue, cramping, stiffness in the neck, and neck pain. Read more
Texting and Neck Pain
Texting Causes Neck Pain
Everyone has probably heard at some time or other that texting is increasingly the cause of neck pain. One chiropractor, Dr. Fishman, has coined the term ‘text neck’ to describe the phenomenon he claims is on the rise. Is it true though, and what can we do about it if it is? With millions of texts sent every day, and every new generation arguably more reliant on their gadgets and gizmos than the next, texting could be a looming public health crisis. Or is it all just hype?