How To Get Rid Of Chronic Neck Pain
What we have here is low back pain that has traveled north,\’ said a doctor to a warehouse foreman who couldn\’t move his neck without feeling severe pain.
There may be some truth in what you say,\’ replied the foreman, who had never suffered low back pain. \’But what should I do about it?\’
\’A good question,\’ the doctor said, reaching for his prescription pad.
It is a good question. The answer, believe it or not, has almost nothing to do with viewing neck pain as a bad back problem that just happened to land higher up on the spine.
There are similarities, of course, between neck pain and low back pain. But mostly there are differences – major differences in self-help therapies (including the kinds of exercises to do), in practitioner effectiveness, and in the success rates of a wide variety of neck pain treatments.
Pretty much everybody has had neck pain at one time or another: a stiff neck when they woke up, a painful neck after painting a ceiling, a \’crook\’ in the neck after holding the telephone in an awkward position during a long conversation.
About one-third of people who suffer with chronic neck injured their necks in accidents. And they usually suffered years of pain before learning how to improve their conditions.