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NECK PAIN
Craning to see distant traffic, hunching to grasp a telephone
& rotating for side vision are all in a day’s work for your neck. No wonder
it sometimes protests with stiffness and pain.
Neck pain is often related to improper movement going too far in your
neck leaning the wrong direction or just not moving in a sound way. You
can injure over to pick up a pencil or lounging in a chair. Will end up
with sore necks from constantly having to look up on a job.
Besides the small aches & cricks, neck troubles can bring on a host of
other symptoms, including head aches, pains in the scalp, face or ears,
dizziness, pressure behind the eyes, fainting and pain or soreness in
the shoulder of arm. As neck muscles tense, they shorten. That inhibits
the head’s full range of motion. And as you move your head less, the muscles
get shorter & shorter. Motion is inhibited even more. And because the
neck and rest of back are so closely related structurally, a person who
suffers with problems in one area could possibly, eventually suffer with
problems in the other.
A neck muscles strain often results from an exaggerated curve in the lower
back. There’s natural slight "S" curve in the spine columns, but if people
get weak abdominal muscles and let their pelvises drop forward, the lower
back also goes forward & exaggerates this curve, to compensate, the upper
back drops back ward & the neck goes way forward. Pain results.
Some times neck problems are the root of pain in another area of the body.
Compressed cervical disc can cause neck pain. Cervical refers to neck
area. Discs are soft tissue bodies that provide padding between the vertebrae.
When healthy & full sized, they space out those bones properly, cushioning
the nerves, blood vessels and muscles tissue that serve the needs of the
body’s vital spinal area. When there is too much spinal stress or pressure,
one or more discs can become compressed. That puts pressure on the nerves
extends from the spinal cord to various other parts of the body. Pain
can result in the area to which these pinched nerves extend. A compressed
disc in the neck can be caused by many different kinds of injuries or
blows to the head or neck. This can be caused by motor accident, or playing
rugby or soccer or sleeping with too thick a pillow or sleeping on your
stomach.
When dealing with neck pain or any pain, it is more important to get to
the root of the problem. Where you feel pain may not be the part of the
body where the injury or nerve pressure causing the hurt is actually located.
Treatment directed at the site of the pain is there fore often a waste
of time, and possibly even counter productive. The whole spinal area,
from our neck down to the base of our spine, is where much of this referred
pain starts. It is important to understand the structures inside your
neck and what sensation you can receive if they begin to weaken. Visualize
all those dozens of different nerves leading from spinal cord into arms
& legs and points between. Then the vertebrae that are placed there to
protect that vital nerve conduit and the potential for pinching nerves
that exists when those bony parts get too close together, slip out of
place or are injured other ways. If it were not for the soft and cushiony
discs between vertebrae, the system simply would not work. Nerves would
be pinched every time we moved and message of referred pain sent constantly
to our limbs & even to our head.
The neck is the bridge between one’s body & head. Sudden motion of one
or the other can impart ‘whiplash’ stress. There is a good possibility
that pressure on cervical discs can also be a cause of headache, particularly
the persistent kind. Some minor injuries to the neck can cause headaches
that go away in eight to there can be wide variety of other injuries that
lead to persistent headache problems. Some times old injuries or trauma
to the neck can create headaches many years later. Repeated strain or
minor injury to the neck may be all that is necessary to precipitate the
headache.
There is a possibility that headaches, which originated in neck strain,
are caused by a more complex series of events than simply a pinched nerve
compression of the vertebral artery can cause partial restriction of blood
flow to the head. That can cause pain and other symptoms, especially dizziness.
Another possibility is that pinching of the neck nerve in some way affects
the nerves serving the head.
Is there any way to prevent neck pain? No there is no way to prevent this.
So neck pain can happen to anyone at anywhere. But there are some good
exercises for a healthy neck. But there is a prevention of false diagnosis
of the cause of upper body pain. Many people have the kind of pain here
described but are not fortunate enough to identify the neck quickly as
the source of problem. Because we live in such a drugs oriented culture,
the first therapeutic thought often is to ask for a prescription for a
pain-killing drug or even a tranquilizer. We are trying to help to change
that situation. Unani herbal medication or treatment has many advantages
over the use of chemical treatments of modern/ allopathic medicines. There
needs to be wider understanding of the vulnerability of the neck & what
the signs of trouble are. It is advisable & advantageous to treat pain
by herbals than chemicals.
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