Some Of The Causes of Neck and Shoulder Pain – Symptoms, Tips and Treatments

 I know sometimes you feel muscle tension around your neck and shoulders, you experience hunch up under your ears, and your neck will be so inflexible/stiff that it barely moves. Intense neck and shoulder inflexibility/stiffness requires you to apply techniques not to only treat the symptoms but also cure the root cause as well. I will later share with you some simple exercises to temporarily makes you feel relief from neck and shoulder pain. Note this exercises only treats the symptoms.

 Some of the common causes of neck and shoulder pain are listed below:

1. Poor posture - Standing or sitting with poor posture can cause your head to tilt forward, which continuously puts torque on the neck and shoulder muscles to restrict your head from sliding forward.

 2. When you raise your shoulder muscles - In your day to day activities, you unknowingly, continuously raise the levator scapulae, the major muscles of your shoulders. This brings about tension to the neck and base of the skull muscles. You usually do this in a few ways:

 a. When you are in a continuous state of anxiety brought on by prolonged stress. This makes you to literally "get your back up", whenever you raise and hold your shoulders in a sort of self protective posture, much like an animal will arch their back, and position their head perceiving an attack.

 b. When you do overhead work that requires you to lift your arms above your head for a long period of time. Examples are lifting heavy objects to high shelves, painting ceilings, and so on.

 c. Cradling a telephone between your ears and shoulders – Oftentimes, you engage in this position several times on a daily basis, if your profession requires you talking on the telephone.

 d. When you type on a keyboard that is too high or relaxing your elbows on an arm rests of a chair that is too low, while you work at a desk causes your shoulders to ride up. It is most possible that spending 8 hours a day, five days a week doing this may cause pain in your neck.

 Symptoms of Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain

I know you are acquainted with the overall painful feeling like a tight band is around your neck and shoulders, and sometimes very sore trigger points, regions that when touched makes you wince. Additionally, you might not be able to move your head to either side without experiencing pain in your neck and shoulders. Note that with bad repetitive structural habits, and you could experience symptoms nerves in your cervical spine. The symptoms are:

 Headaches or continuous tenderness in the occipital muscles, that band of muscles at the very base of your head which extends from ear to ear

 Weakness whenever you lift your arms, and/or dropping items.

 Tingling or numbness in the hands, and/or sometimes fingertips.

 Burning sensation on the muscles of your upper arms.

 Now here are simple exercises to help tightness. These are stretching that can be done a couple of times on a daily basis to relax your muscles. Note that your muscles and nerves must be at a relaxed state, and all exercises must be practiced gently and patiently.

 Bend your head forward, with your chin at chest level, and then back to original.

 Position your head forward, bend your head to the left, now back to original position. Similarly, bend to the right, then go back to original position.

 Bend your head slightly backward, and then to the original position

 Position your head forward, with your chin at chest level, tilt your head to the left, then to the right as well.

In Addition, There are Other Things you can do:

Discover the accurate workspace ergonomics for your job. Set correctly your chair and the keyboard height. Make use of a speakerphone or a headset to avoid phone cradling.

 Practice aerobic workouts like rebounding, running, walking, to reduce stress and tension.

 Practice good, technical overhead mechanics. Frequent stretching breaks will help relax your neck and shoulder muscles. Also lifting the correct heavy items will help.

 Please try as much as possible to drink a lot of water. The joints and muscles needs adequate in take of water to function correctly. At least take eight oz glasses per day or more, considering your environment (very hot, very cold then you need more), weight and other activities.

 Take a warm bath in Epsom salt will assist in removing the lactic acid that builds up sore and stiff muscles that can lead to pain, and much more.

 All these will help relief the pain temporarily, but to permanently get rid of these pains by treating the root cause of the problem, you need to apply easy, simple and clear techniques. It is interesting, can be applied anywhere, at any given time you feel convenient, so many people around the world use these techniques and it has been around for over one hundred years. What it will also teach you is how: to know the root cause of your problem, to start experiencing relief from pain in seconds, to improve your endurance, strength and coordination exactly where you need it, to stop wasting a lot of money on pills and injections, to help fight stress, to get back to pain free daily workouts, to teach your body the art of natural movement, and lots more.