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
Recently I became aware that of an Osteopathic doctor who recommends the arc4life cervical traction neck pillow to her patients. Many of her patients are coming in for neck pain, stiff neck, numbness and tingling and weakness in the upper extremity. She sees many patients who have a herniated disc, bulging disc or degeneration in their cervical spine. She has recommends patients use the pillow for a gentle neck stretch. This is how important it is to put the neck in alignment and free up the nerves. She instructions patient to lay on the pillow for 20 minutes at a time.
This is a great thing to do because you may prescribe someone neck traction to do at home but they may not do it because it is too painful or simply too cumbersome to do at home. Having them use the pillow for traction is one easy alternative to get used to stretching the neck muscles in this way. Furthermore, the patient will not be putting themselves in danger while stretching their neck spine. The cervical linear traction neck pillow lends itself for a gentle neck stretch that relieve a lot of neck pain, numbness and tingling.
There are other ways also to do neck traction without using the complicated over the door neck traction units or other fancy traction machines. For example you can lay on a soothe-a-ciser, or a wear a neck collar that stretches your neck
Why is this so important? Putting that curvature back in the neck is essential for relieving nerve pressure. When the normal curve is there the spinal cord is relaxed and the discs sit properly between each cervical vertebrae. This "C" curve also allows the holes on each side of the spine stay wide open for nerve roots to travel.
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