Are you someone who is having trouble checking your blind spot when driving? This is not a good feeling or a safe situation to be in. It is important to be able to turn your head to check behind you before changing lanes. Being unable to look behind you puts not only...
There are 17 different types of headaches classified by the International Headache Society. And at least one type of headache is associated with neck pain. That’s right, it is possible to have both neck pain plus headaches acting together. Cervicogenic headaches are...
Every night tens of thousands of individuals struggle to sleep due to neck pain. Most have tried different positions, spent $100’s of dollars on pillows, medications, etc often without relief. And this leads to the disruption of a restful night’s sleep. Often people...
Did you know there is a type of headache linked to neck pain? It is more common than you think and is called a cervicogenic headache (meaning neck related headache). Individuals with this type of headache will often report both neck pain and headaches. However, there...
That snap, crackle, or pop (of the neck), is it a bad thing? This is an often-asked question by people with neck pain. In most instances the answer to this question is NO, there is nothing wrong. To begin with, the noise a person hears is merely a release of “gas”...
For many individuals with neck pain they will discover stretching may not help. They will complain their neck feels tight but the tight feeling never REALLY leaves…no matter how much they stretch. The feeling even returns quickly after those nice massages that people...
If you are like most people, you will wait and see if your ache or pain gets better. Count me as one of them and I am a PT. The difference is, my education and profession give me a slight heads up on which issues I can work through more easily and others that I may...
Did you know that you can actually save money (and time) by seeing a PT 1st for your injury? Many individuals who have an ache or pain or injury feel they must see a doctor 1st. But will you find the answers to your problem? Will the doctor provide solutions…or...
It hurts to turn my head driving – is something I hear every week from a client. It is a very common complaint and not a good (safe) thing to hear. It is kind of important to be able to turn your head driving, NO? Why is this a common issue? Because neck pain exists...
So your neck hurts at work, does it? Well…join the tens or even hundreds of thousands of others with the same issue. Why is this? What is it about work that causes a person’s neck to hurt? Inherently nothing, but by repeating the same action over and over, day after...