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Category: Neck Pain
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Raking Leaves Safely
It’s that time of year again when the leaves start to fall and you spend your entire Saturday raking. While it might not seem painful at the time, the next day people often find themselves paying for their hard work with back pain, sore shoulders, and aching wrists. How can this be prevented? Raking and…
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Can Stress Cause Shoulder Pain?
This content was updated for accuracy and relevance on July 24, 2023 Learning how to achieve balance in our lives can be a tricky thing to master. When you’re expected to run the household, manage social activities, and carry a full load at work it can leave you with strong feelings of stress and anxiety.…
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Physical Therapists Empower Patients – The McKenzie Method
Back pain and other musculoskeletal pain can be both debilitating and frustrating, especially if it starts to interfere in work duties, daily activities, and quality of life. Imagine having the power to control your pain without the need for pain medication or surgery. The McKenzie Method teaches patients to do just that. The idea is simple:…
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Tech Neck – How Technology is Affecting Your Posture
In today’s digital world, smartphones are used for just about everything. It’s not uncommon to spend hours on social media, texting, or watching videos on your phone or tablet. You see it at the dinner table, on the subway, or late at night in bed. But too much screen time affects your health in more ways…
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TMJ Disorders – Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Does it hurt when you yawn, chew food, or sing? Are you having difficulty eating a sandwich or biting into a bagel? Have you felt an increased amount of stress recently? Do you clench or grind your teeth? If you answered “yes,” you may be experiencing temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD) or TMJ. We tend to forget that…
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Five Ways Your Posture is Hurting You
Poor postural habits are something that most of us, as humans, are guilty of from time to time. But do we ever really stop and consider the consequences our bodies suffer as a result? With the addition of smartphones and tablets to our lives, most of us spend more time in a hunched position that…
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How to Sleep with Chronic Pain
This article was updated for accuracy and relevancy on January 12, 2022. Sleeping with pain can be a nightmare. The best way to manage how to sleep with pain is to find the most comfortable sleep position. Luckily, we came across a great resource from the Wall Street Journal that we’ve summarized for you below,…
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Five Exercises to Stop Frequent Headaches
Do you suffer from frequent headaches or migraine symptoms? You’re not alone! At least 75% of Americans suffer from some form of headache each year. What many people don’t know is that partaking in a regular stretching program can help restore proper muscular tissue quality and prevent tension-related headaches. Below is a video showing 5…
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Snap, Crackle, & Pop: Making Sense of the Noises in your Neck
This content was updated for accuracy and relevance on 02/01/22 Are you struggling with constant habitual neck cracking or neck popping pain? From joint popping, spinal manipulation to soft tissue massage physical therapy, there are many options that may help relieve chronic neck pain and cracking, or even neck stiffness. As a clinician who specializes…
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7 Tips for Sitting at Work (& Stopping Pain)
Poor posture and long periods of sitting are common in today’s workplace. In fact, people spend about 2,000 hours per year sitting with poor posture! And because of modern workplace demands, it’s usually difficult to re-adjust once you’ve become used to a certain position. It’s even harder to find time to stand and walk throughout…