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
Just getting loose and. Warming up muscles and joints is extremely important
to prevent injury. Research has found that dynamic stretching before a
workout and static stretching after the workout is best. This means that
movement stretches do pre-exercise and ones you stretch and hold do post
workout.
Here's an example - lets take the hamstring muscles; the classic stretch is
to bend down and touch your toes and then hold for 15 or 20 seconds. Before
the work out do so jogging in place or high knees.
Your neck is often the hidden culprit for pain in the arm or hands. Also, it might not be in both hands, but one. And it might not be pain but tingling.
Get your neck checked before someone just says "carpal tunnel", and you go with it. In the majority of cases, there's something going on in the neck.
Lots of cracking and popping in the neck will typically mean that there is something out of place. You see what happens in your body is that your body allows spinal segment above and below the stuck or restricted one, to move easier.
When something moves out of place it gets stuck or restricted. The body tries to adapt and find a way to get the movement needed. This happens not only in the neck, but throughout the body.
Do you groan when the weather is cold and rainy outside? Do you have more aches and pains, along with stiffness as well in your joints?
Here's what a happens: As the barometric pressure drops it's like gravity pushing down on us more. Cold weather often means that the atmospheric pressure is lower. When the pressure goes down, less pressure is exerted on our tissues and the joints by the atmosphere. This causes our tissues to expand and put more pressure on the joints. Although this happens to all of us at some level, patients with arthritis and other pains are affected more.
Add to that already arthritic joints or some disc pressure and poof along comes more pain.
Studies have even shown that 90 % of patients with fibromyalgia and 80-90% of patients with arthritic feel that their systems are weather related. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, headaches, gout, trigeminal neuralgia and lower back pain can be affected more.
We cannot all be meteorologists but as other mammals there are some things we will sense from our surroundings. If you don't believe me, drive by a dairy farm when it's about to rain... All the cows will be sitting down. How did they know that??
So what can we do to avoid this pain? Use a moist heating pack on your joints and areas of pain. Dress extra warmly. Be active, stretch your muscles and move around. This will help to decrease the stiffness.
