Sneezing and neck pain
If you suffer from neck pain when you sneeze or cough there is a simple way to remedy this. One of the major causes of neck pain when you sneeze is holding your neck in a flexed or forward position at the time of sneezing; in other words, having your head looking [...]
Unless this is the first ever blog post of mine that you are reading you should be well aware that good posture both in standing and sitting is essential for neck and shoulder health.
If you are slouching your thoracic spine is hunched forwards, your neck is in a protracted position (head forward position) and then [...]
As a general rule whether you sleep on your side or your back you want to make sure that your neck is not getting pushed forwards, backwards or sideways. It should be fairly level. If you are sleeping on your back you definitely do not want too many pillows that push your head into a [...]
As more and more people drive cars these days we also inevitably are seeing an increase in car accidents. Whiplash is a common injury and females are 2 times more at risk than males and they are also more likely to develop long term symptoms. It is not well known why this is the case [...]
Here is another one of those myths that I hear all of the time. People telling me that they are stiff because it’s an unavoidable part of aging. When I ask them how often they stretch the answer is generally never. Or some people tell me that they stretch every day. When I ask [...]
This is a question I often get in the clinic. There are any joints that can make all kinds of cracks and pops. Some people’s knees crack when they get up out of a chair, others have shoulders that snap crackle and pop and others have hips that clunk. You may have worried about what [...]
WHIPLASH
What you need to know about it
As more and more people drive cars these days we also inevitably are seeing an increase in car accidents. Whiplash is a common injury and females are 2 times more at risk than males and they are also more likely to develop long term symptoms. It is not [...]
Neck Pain-Look AT your computer not INTO it
If you are sitting poorly, standing poorly or doing you daily activities using poor bio-mechanics you will be injuring your neck time and time again. When a person is sitting slouched with the chin jutting forwards they are continually straining the ligaments. The ligaments surround the joints [...]
The lower back quiz -Question 2
Ok folks, I hope you all did very well last week on my quiz. Here is this week’s true or false statement. Remember, the more you know about how to save your back from harm the less back pain you will have-you MUST remove the things that cause your back [...]
The lower back pain quiz
Are you damaging your back?
Ok folks here we go. I am sure many of you reading this have a good idea of your lower back and what you should be doing for it and what you should be avoiding.
Right? Hmm, let’s see shall we.
After all, the majority of people I see [...]