Helpful Neck Pain Exercises

Exercises for neck pain can help many individuals control their neck pain. However, before starting any type of neck pain exercises, always consult your medical practitioner or physical therapist because such actions could further aggravate your neck pain. Also, if you have a serious underlying condition or other medical problems, seek medical advice first before starting neck exercises. Performing a range of full movement, motion exercises on a daily basis is a good way to stretch your neck muscles, prevent stiffness, and help control the pain in your neck. Moreover, it could help you regain some loss of neck movement, maintain or increase your neck’s range of motion, and reduce or control the pain. For people suffering from chronic and debilitating neck pain, simple motion neck pain exercises may help you tolerate more activity or help with the mobility your neck, but are not always effective in combating or reducing neck pain.

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Walk Your Lower Back Pain Away

Whenever you feel that lower back pain coming, isn’t it a natural Brisk Walking Good For Lower Back Painresponse to tell yourself that you need to rest and slow down for the day. That is, so that you can rest your sore back? Well, it may sound a bit counter-productive, but the truth of the matter is the exact opposite may be better for you. What? Yup, that’s right. According to research, exercise helps your muscles to relax and even increases blood flow to the area of pain, enhancing the removal of the byproducts created by inflammation. This article from Spine-health discusses how walking can help you find relief for your lower back pain …

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What Are Muscle Spasms?

Back Muscle Spasms
If you experience muscle spasms, then in most cases, you probably are feeling it in the area of your lower back. Unlike lower back pain, lower back muscle spasms are involuntary tightening of back muscles, and they are painful. In general, back spasms occur occasionally, however, some people experience chronic back spasms.

Muscles have this inherent self-defense mechanism which reacts when they are being overworked or overly stretched out. And as you can imagine, the natural reaction of the muscles is to tighten up or contract in order to protect itself from further damage. These types of back muscle spasms don’t last too long, and an individual usually recovers by resting up and receiving the appropriate treatments.

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Managing Chronic Neck Pain

Acute neck pain is generally felt suddenly after some kind of trauma like an accident, surgery, or undue stress. But only lasts Man with chronic neck painfor a short period of time. It is a direct reaction to trauma to tissue or disease and normally subsides when you treat the injury, disease, or cause. Chronic neck pain on the other hand, is a long lasting, persistent, and recurrent pain that can go on for many years. Pinpointing the source of the chronic pain is the first step in evaluating and treating chronic neck pain and other long lasting pain. You should not ignore any persistent pain including chronic neck pain, since it can be an indication of a serious illness or disease. And moreover, it can become worse if the cause is not determined and treated, although there are times when doctors and specialists cannot identify the exact cause of chronic pain.
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7 Desired Features You Want In A Heating Pad

On the previous blog post about heating pads, I discussed 5 factors that should serve as a warning to stay away from specific types of heating pads. Today, I want to focus on the features that make a heating pad a no-brainer of a buy. The following 7 desirable features of a quality heating pad are …

FIR-based heating pad

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5 Things To Be Wary Of With Heating Pads

Heating pads are great because they provide that nice, soothing warmth which reduces back pain and muscle aches all over your body. It is proven that the impact of heat on pain is real. In fact, studies have shown that heat receptors located at the area of pain blocks chemical messengers that tell your brain that there’s pain! So in a way, heat acts like an OTC painkiller, deactivating pain at the molecular level within our body.

Electric Heating Pads can be dangerous

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Advice That Can Reduce Your Back Pain

Back pain is a common problem, with about 80% or more adults experiencing some form of it during their lifetime. But, before you fret, give the ideas and insights in the following blog post a try. It is often possible to treat back pain without outside intervention.
Lose weight to relieve back pain
Lose weight to ease back pain. If you weigh more than you should, shedding the extra weight will take some of the pressure off your back. Excess weight can decrease muscle tone, leading to unnecessary strain on muscles and tendons. Aim for a proper height/weight proportion.

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A Good Pillow Works Wonders To Relieve Your Neck Pain

Any pillow good for neck pain
People spend approximately a third of their lives sleeping, and so it makes a whole lot of sense that a good pillow can help relieve your neck pain. A well-designed pillow that supports your neck will help people that suffer from neck pain along with preventing neck problems in non-sufferers. Neck pain, tense muscles and discomfort are increasingly common due to pillows that offer little neck support or are too soft, high, or stiff. Instead of waking up refreshed, many people feel worse with shoulder, back, and/or neck pain. Other symptoms of improper upper back and neck support include neck stiffness, numbness in the hands and arms, insomnia, headaches, and sometimes even snoring. It is important for people to realize they should replace their pillow ever year or two because they eventually break down and often cause more harm than good. Continue reading

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Can Exercise Give You Pain Relief From Sciatica?

On a previous blog post, I talked about the sciatic nerve and how certain conditions, such as lower back pain, could cause sciatica, which could then result in leg pain. Note, sciatica is a symptom and not a condition, and thus, it cannot be considered the cause of the pain. It is used to explain the symptoms of the sciatic nerve, which in general, is the irritation of the sciatic nerve. The pain originates from a nerve or a number of nerves located in the lower back, which is compressed or irritated by such conditions as spinal stenosis, herniated discs or lower back pain. And since the sciatic nerve runs from the lower back all the way to your toes, sciatic pain can be felt all along that nerve route. But it’s not doom and gloom if you experience pain from sciatica. There are a set of exercises listed on the site Spine-Health specially designed to help you get relief from sciatica pain! And that being said, here’s the article:

Piriformis Stretch For Sciatica

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Back Pain Relief Via High Frequency Stimulation?

There are many sufferers of back pain in the world. Most people are unaware of just what to do to get rid of the pain and so they continue to suffer. Worse yet, they rely on dangerous prescription pain killers which can be highly addictive or OTC pain drugs, which both may pose negative effects to your health after prolonged use. However, back pain is not fun, it’s debilitating, and can rob the quality of your life. I found this article on the site Medical News Today which talks about “a new type of spinal cord stimulation” with promising results to help relieve your back pain.

High Frequency Stimulation for back pain

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