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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