Thank you for tuning in to today’s livestream where we talked about neck pain. Whether you’re getting neck pain that’s constant or coming and going, we’re going to talk more today about how you can help it from home. We need to have a look at what we’re doing on a daily basis and then some proactive ways of moving forward once you’ve established where you’re going wrong.

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How Are We Using Our Body On A Daily Basis Is it from daily life or was it a one-off trauma that caused your neck pain? If you’re getting stiffness and tension that’s built up over time into more constant pain, this may have happened over a number of months or years. You may have been diagnosed with facet issues or disc issues already. Someone who’s had a one off trauma we generally tend not to see as they tend to go to a hospital at the time, but we might see that person a few years later if they haven’t been through the necessary rehabilitation process.

How Is Our Neck Constructed? The human skeleton has been evolving for a long time. It’s designed very well with its three curves to help it function, and to support the weight of your body and a bowling ball weighted head on top of a delicate neck structure. Looking at erosion for example, smaller, sustained traumas can have a bigger impact over time than one off events. Are we doing things on a daily basis that’s not helpful. Are we laying in bed reading a book or on your phone with your head propped up on a pillow? Are we doing this watching TV? When we realign spines in the clinic using spinal remodelling, this is a process of 20 minutes a day for 3-4 months. If you can do that, you can definitely achieve a worsening of the posture in that time period as well in just 20 minutes. Most of us spend a lot more time than that with bad posture.

The Wrong Exercises With a reduced neck curve, you tend to get stiffness into the neck, shoulders and upper back. If you’re pulling the neck forwards to stretch the area, this is only perpetuating the problem - you need to stop doing that exercise. Your muscles will be working harder when you’re dealing with forward head posture because it accentuates the weight of your head, a little like holding your shopping bags in front of you away from the body - they feel heavy quickly.

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