How Does a Tens Unit Work on Muscle Spasm- Pain comes from electroechemical impulses relaying the pain message. A TENS unit interrupts this pathway. T.E.N.S stands for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. It is often used to treat low back pain and neck pain. Tens units use a low voltage electrical current to induce pain relief. Continue Reading Article
Neck Exercises- Learn effective neck stretches and strengthening exercises for the cervical spine
End Neck Pain by Improving Posture- How Proper Posture Improves Your Spine Relieving Nerve Pressure- How does posture have anything to do with neck pain?--Neck pain comes from pressure on the nerves. How does this happen?--Usually pressure from a misaligned neck spine. When your spine is misaligned (some call that subluxated) it does not move like it should and in turn creates inflammation in that area. Either out-of-alignment spinal vertebrae (spinal bones) put direst pressure on nerves or the inflammation, or built up degeneration causes the pressure. Continue Reading Article
How to Reduce the Chances of Getting A Stiff Neck- A Stiff Neck.... Horrible especially when you wake up in the morning and realize that it is going to be one painful day. You are stiff, your neck hurts, you cannot turn your head, even brushing your teeth hurts. We get questions about how to treat a stiff neck all the time. Continue Reading Article
How To Avoid Neck Pain While Doing Abs- If you do your Abdominal crunches correctly with proper form, there is no reason to suffer from neck pain or sore neck. One of the biggest mistakes that people make is that involve there neck muscles while doing these exercises- that is a NO-NO. Bringing your head and neck forward puts unnecessary pressure on the neck and it is not healthy. So when you do your abdominal crunch look at the ceiling.Continue Reading Article
For the last three work days, one of my friends at work has brought in a dunkin donuts "coolatta". This is her so called breakfast. Not only does she complain that she forgot or ran out of time to eat breakfast, but then she complains that she is not been sleeping well. I think that once in a while these drinks are a great "treat", but i don't think they are a good substitute for breakfast.
Did you know that skipping breakfast may affect your sleep. Eating, not just breakfast, but a good breakfast, is extremely important (You can do Dunkin Donuts Coffee but the donuts are a treat). This is very important in your overall health and so is a good night's sleep. Your neck pillow helps spinal alignment which helps sleep but make sure you do everything else also that will help you stay healthy and sleep well.
Typically sleeping with 2 or more pillows is not normal. Doing this, when you are on you back will flex your head forward, flattening your neck curve. On the side it will laterally bend your head into an awkward position. Doing this on a regular basis, is not good for your spine as it will start to take on this shape.
I recently came across a very important study called the Millennium Cohort Study that demonstrated the relationship between sleep and brain development for young kids. Being the parent of a one year old, this newest study published in the British Medical Journal really caught my eye. In the study, the sleep and behavior patterns of 11 000 kids were studied.
The study showed that those children who demonstrated irregular bedtimes up to the age of three were the most negatively affected when it came to 3 important skills:
reading
math skills
spatial awareness
Over times these kids were followed and researchers found that they continued to lag developmentally even by the age of seven. In the study, girls were more adversely affected than boys.
The study concluded that sleep is extremely important in the the first three years of a child's life in relation to brain development.
Incidently this study is similar to a Canadian study (published in the Journal Sleep) conducted in 2008 that showed similar patterns. Children who slept less than 10 hours at night before age 3 were more likely to exhibit language and reading problems.
One important fact about why it is important for a child to have adequate sleep: In both studies, these developmental problems persisted despite improvement in total sleep time after the age of three.
There are a lot of pillows on the market today. Just today I was channel
surfing and I came across a new pillow that functions solely to hold ones
tablet and mini tablet computer. I guess this is in demand since we are such a
technologically advanced society.
Does this pillow do anything for your neck ?
No it doesn't in my mind because it promotes using the computer. That means
hours and hours of looking down. That eventually translates to something
familiar called tech neck. I'm sure you've had it: you know the pain you get
from looking down while on the computer. Neck pain, soreness, tight muscles,
maybe even a headache. When done continuously this is not a healthy posture for
your neck.
So when these pillow users finish with their new pillow that holds their
computer for them, they may want to look at one that fixes their neck pain.
