The Queen of Neck Pillows: 2 posts from July 2016

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Health Articles Related to Neck Pain
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

Sleeping On the Right Size of the Arc4life Traction Pillow Is Vitally Important

Arc4life has been in the business of selling neck pillows and pain relief products for over 10 years now, actually since 2003. Over the years we have seen products come and go, some flourish, other get packed up never to be seen again. Not the arc4life traction pillow. This pillow's family members you could say have grown.

We started with just the original medium size. Over the years we have added the large size, extra firm models and now in March of 2015 we have added a small arc4life pillow.

Size matters a whole lot when it comes to choosing a neck pillow. Just because you have a king size bed, does not mean you need to sleep with a large size pillow. Your neck will not be happy in the morning and you sleep will be affected by this.

Rough Guide to Getting the Right Size:

****4 ft to 5'1"- 5'2" and petite frame - choose the small size. Example Mrs.Carmichael of Hoboken NJ recently ordered a pillow. She ordered the small size because she is 5'1 and weighed 120 lbs.

The small is also great for teens, and children. We recently had a mother order a small size pillow for her 3 year old son who weighs 30 lbs.

Finally, the small is also a great travel size pillow. You can actually travel with this pillow in your luggage. The dimensions are 20" x 15". We have a a lot of customers who take this pillow with them on business trips. It can be easily squished down and fits nicely in smaller suitcases.

****5'3" - 5' 11" - choose the medium size. This is what most of the population will order. Mrs.Gill recently ordered this. She is 5'5" and weighs 135 lbs. The medium is perfect for her. Her husband is 5'9, weighs 170 lbs, he also likes the medium size pillow.

If you are a petite framed person but like to use a medium standard size pillow, order the medium size pillow. The dimensions of this pillow are 24"x17".

****6' ft and over - choose the large size. Anybody who is tall and is built like a football player or is lean framed needs to order the large size. For example, Mr. Taglitelle is 6'2" and weighs 220 lbs, he ordered the large and it fit him well.

If you generally like to use a large pillow, which is the case sometimes, get the large pillow. The large pillow is 4" longer than the medium size pillow. The medium pillow is 24"x17" and the large size is 28"x17". Know that the large pillow is going to have more fiber inside and will be poofier (if that's a word) and just generally thicker.

Keep in mind that the larger pillow has two extra inches on both sides. This can be helpful if you like to sleep on your side and like to have a little extra room.

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July 05, 2016

Study Tests Pillow Height to Maintain Normal Cervical Lordosis

In the September 2015 edition of Korean Journal of Spine, a study was completed to find out the effect of sleeping on different pillow heights and how that effects the neck and upper segments of the spine. 16 adults with no symptoms, aged 20-30 years were involved in the study. For any participant who had a history of injury or accident to the neck or upper back, cervicothoracic spine surgery or was treated for neck pain symptoms - they were not included in this study and excluded.

They tested 3 different pillow heights while the participant was sleeping on their backs. 1. flat (0 cm) pillow, 2. 10cm pillow and 3. 20cm pillows. This study was looking at the effects of three different pillow heights on the slope of the cervicothoracic spine segments when resting in the supine position (facing up). They measured 4 parameters to analyze how the spine position changed with respect to changing the pillow height.