What does neck pain do? It keeps
you from moving your neck the way you want. Pain is effective
like that! It keeps us from doing things that could
damage us. Ok, that’s not all bad! But neck pain can disturb
more than just motion. It can disrupt daily living.
Brooks chiropractic at Soft Health and Healing Clinic can help ease
neck pain and restore its normal motion.
NECK PAIN LIMITS MOTION
Not only does neck pain restrict
cervical spine motion, it also requires compensatory motions
to do what must be done. If the neck aches
when turning to the left, you’ll
not do that. That’s a compensatory motion. Normal flexion/extension,
lateral, and rotational motions have been noted in
normal patients. (1) And if you think your capabiloity to move
your neck affects your life, consider
baseball pitchers! College baseball pitchers with limited neck motion during
preseason had higher risk of game
time loss as well as shoulder and elbow disability during
the season. (2) That’s really life-changing
for them and their life dreams! Know that your Brooks chiropractor
can know from a thorough clinical examination just how pain is
affecting your normal range of motion and how to help
you (whether you’re a baseball player or not!) get
it back.
NECK ISSUES INFLUENCE SLEEP APNEA
Another interesting cervical spine finding
is that prior cervical spondylosis – degenerative
changes in the cervical spine that often appear with aging, bringing
about vertebral bone degeneration, disc degeneration, bone
spur formation and the like - and obstructive sleep apnea are related.
Such sleep apnea is connected to cervical spine
changes that tighten the airway space that come
with cervical spondylosis. (3) Cervical spondylosis is another spine condition your Brooks chiropractor know
well.
CHIROPRACTIC RESTORES NECK MOTION
Soft Health and Healing Clinic applies careful treatment
of the cervical spine using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal
Pain Management. Patient tolerance is continually the guiding factor
combined with the doctor’s hand. Cox® Technic for cervical
spine offers gentle stretching of the spine to free
narrowed spaces with combined ranges of motion to restore better
cervical spine movement.
CONTACT Soft Health and Healing Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ben Glass on the Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how
he helps neck pain patients find neck pain relief
with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule a Brooks chiropractic appointment with
Soft Health and Healing Clinic to get back missing neck motion and get
rid of neck pain.