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...
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How can it be possible? You have neck pain and you go to Pilates 2-3 times a week but your neck still feels painful. This is just not right! You have heard that Pilates is supposed to be good for you so why isn’t it working?! Oh sure you feel a bit better than...
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The last time that you suffered from a bout of neck pain and saw a practitioner were you given specific exercises to do? The reason I ask this is because its vitally important that you start doing neck exercises for your neck to both remove pain and if you have them, disc bulges but...
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Neck and shoulder pain Neck and shoulder pain is very common these days but thankfully it is also easy to remedy. The overwhelming majority of neck and shoulder pain are primarily due to poor postural habits and muscular imbalances. If you read my other posts you will see how the major cause of over...
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Here is a classic example of a person causing her own neck pain. Notice how her ears are way in front of her shoulders. If she were sitting upright her ears would be centrally above her shoulders not it front of them. Remember that the head should sit on the neck like a golf...
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Crashes involving whiplash neck injuries happen at lightning-fast speeds, but if you have time to prepare: Put your head and your neck all the way back so that you’re in contact with the seat back and the properly adjusted head restraint. Straight-arm the steering wheel and get a good grip. If you are stopped,...
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I have mentioned before that if you do not remove the causes of your neck pain you will continue to suffer from recurrent or constant pain. This is the nature of neck pain; its either constant pain or people are on a continual cycle of neck pain-no neck pain. The most common scenario in...
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Look-up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s-my neck hurting again! Many people have pain when they have to look upwards and others lose this range of motion when they hurt their necks. It is very easy to fix. The major problem is that people tend to crane their neck...
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Neck pain and your enemy number 1 What simple thing that you do and 90% of the population do each and every day and is completely avoidable is related to these symptoms. Neck pain, disc bulges, muscle strains, trigger points in the neck, lower back pain, sciatica, TMJ(jaw) problems, headaches( both sinus and suboccipital),...
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When it comes to suffering from neck pain and you have arthritis there are many things that you can do to help this. Firstly, the good news is that there is virtually no link between the amount of pain and the amount of arthritis. In other words, some people can be riddled with arthritis...
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