Why You’re Experiencing Neck Pain

Hi, my name is Dr. Jacob Hendendrickson,
the owner and chiropractor at Crystal
Grove Chiropractic in Loots, Florida.
And one of the primary things that I see
and treat in my office is neck pain.
Now, neck pain happens to a lot of
people, and it’s usually caused by
compression in the spine, squishing all
of your tissue, causing tightness,
inflammation, and just pain. Often times
when someone presents with neck pain,
they also have poor posture, and many
times they can have migraines or
headache. When someone has neck pain,
what we’ll generally see is that their
head is pushed forward. Sometimes their
shoulders are rounded as well. We see
that a lot more with headaches and
migraines, but most of the time someone
just has really bad posture in their
neck and it’s being pushed forward like
that. And when that happens, the even
spacing in all of the discs of your
spine and the joints gets compromised
and pushed forward. And this can cause
the joints to close down and put
pressure on the discs and nerves and
your vascular tissue. And simply the
body responds by creating inflammation
and muscle tightness to help protect
things but it doesn’t feel very good and
it’s the result the result is pain. Now
some of the things that you can do to
mitigate just general neck pain is
trying to sit up nice and straight. It
sounds simple but it works and it just
takes pressure off of the neck cuz we
elongate and stretch the tissues. And
just imagine there’s a string on the top
of your head and someone’s pulling it
up. And this will take the pressure off
of everything temporarily and you’ll
probably start to recompress and get
back into your bad habit. Another thing
that you can do are some very easy
exercises
such as chin tucks. You just come back,
hold, you may feel a light stretch in
the back of your neck. You can do 10
repetitions of that maybe three times a
day. It will help stretch and take the
pressure off of everything. Now, here at
Crystal Grove Chiropractic, not only do
we use chiropractic adjustments to move
the vertebrae and help regain function
of the spine, but we also use spinal
decompression tables which really
stretch the spine and open up the
tissues and really help train the body
to maintain that proper posture. If you
or anyone else that you know is
experiencing neck pain or headaches,
migraines, please have them reach out
and see if we can get you or them back
on the path of recovery.