In your life, what or who is a pain in the neck? Do you suffer from the burden of trying to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders?

Neck and shoulder pain is a common complaint amongst patients – whether or not you specialise in musculoskeletal cases, pain in the neck and/or shoulders will be experienced by many of your patients.

Treating and resolving neck and shoulder pain is often fairly straight forward – but what about those cases where it just doesn’t seem to respond to treatment the way you think it should? In this episode Clare and Phi discuss their strategies to deal with really tricky neck and shoulder pain, and surprising ways they’ve found to help resolve it.

Some of the things we discussed in this episode include:

Heather Bruce’s navel cupping technique

Mouth breathing, the consequences for TMJ, bruxing and neck pain, and what you can do about it

Pterygoid muscle release

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