Neck Pain Treatment

Neck Pain Is Common From Poor Posture

Poor posture can cause muscles to spasm and joint inflammation

Because your neck plays an important role in everyday activities, neck pain can interfere with your daily tasks. Dealing with neck pain on your own, especially when you do not know the source of it, can be challenging. At Axis Helath Center, our professional healthcare providers will identify the source of your neck condition and assist you in regaining normal pain-free function.

If you are looking for neck pain relief near Saskatoon on 8th Street, our wellness clinic is dedicated to helping you find long-lasting results with research-backed treatments. Request an appointment with Axis Health Center today to get started on the path toward recovery!

Read our blog about poor posture and how chiropractic care can help promote better spine health here!

Why Does My Neck Hurt?

Neck pain can be treated with physiotherapy and chiropractic adjustments

There are several causes of back pain, and determining the underlying cause can be difficult. Fortunately, our experienced chiropractor and acupuncturist can assist you in determining all of the factors causing the problem and developing a comprehensive plan to address them all!

Our expert chiropractor at Axis Health Center in Saskatoon treat all types of back and neck pain. We employ research-backed strategies that have been shown to produce long-term results.

Factors Affecting Neck Pain:

Does poor posture cause neck pain?

Your spine is built to move in specific ways. Chronic poor posture and bad spine positions, like sitting, slouching, bending over, are one of the most common causes of back pain. Our spines are made for how our ancestors lived, to move more every day to hunt, eat, travel, and seek shelter. But today we typically spend most of our day sitting, standing, lifting, or pulling most of the time. This puts our spine in a chronic poor position and we begin to lose our healthy spine posture.

Neck pain from poor posture is most commonly from prolonged activities such as sitting and standing. When we sit at a desk all day it puts our neck in a poor posture. This poor posture puts excess strain and stress on the muscles, joints, ligaments, nerves, and tendons in the neck. Our neck has many small muscles that are not made for poor posture. If you sit at a desk for many hours a day, your posture may suffer and result in neck pain, joint inflammation, swelling, spasm, and degenerative disc disease. Don't let this happen to you, call us today and improve your neck posture today!

The discs between two vertebrae (i.e., spine bones) act as pillows to help our spines move properly and absorb forces to protect the spine from injury. They also protect the nerves that come out of our spine and travel out into the body. If the disc gets injured then it can put pressure on the nerves of our spine causing more nerve damage.

The discs are particularly vulnerable to injury from bending and twisting movements, primarily when lifting in these positions. The disc is also susceptible to prolonged postures related to sitting or awkward tasks.

Injury to the discs can cause significant pain in the back and lead to a more serious condition known as radiculopathy (i.e., nerve pain) in your thigh, leg, or foot (aka sciatica). A disc that is damaged in the neck can cause pain into the arm, hand, and fingers similar to Carpal Tunnel and other nerve problems.

The good news is that our treatments at Axis Health Center can help you recover from a disc injury.

A neck muscle strain occurs when you overstretch your neck muscles. Neck muscle strains are often due to traumas like sports injuries, car accidents or are due to repetitive stress injuries (i.e. turning your head repeatedly while swimming). These neck traumas can also injure the joints of the neck.

Whiplash is a type of sprain/strain injury caused when the head whips rapidly back and forth resulting in injury to the soft tissues in the back of the neck. A sprain occurs when you overstretch the ligaments whereas a strain occurs when you overstretch muscles.

The most common cause of whiplash injuries are an automobile accident, a high-impact sports collision, or from a slip/fall type accident.

The best way to be 100% sure of why you are experiencing neck pain is to request an appointment with our Healthcare Providers at Axis Health Center in Saskatoon.

Another common cause of neck pain is degenerative disc disease or arthritis wear-and-tear, which is most commonly associated with nagging injury in the back and neck. Degenerative changes can also be caused by smoking, certain medications, and injury.

Degenerative disc disease is usually associated with reduced range of motion and pain when moving the spine. If the condition is caught and treated in the early stages there are better outcomes than when left alone for months and years.

People frequently describe a dull, painful ache in the lower back that worsens with prolonged standing or walking.

A neck muscle strain occurs when you overstretch your neck muscles. Neck muscle strains are often due to traumas like sports injuries, car accidents or are due to repetitive stress injuries (i.e. turning your head repeatedly while swimming). These neck traumas can also injure the joints of the neck.

Whiplash is a type of sprain/strain injury caused when the head whips rapidly back and forth resulting in injury to the soft tissues in the back of the neck. A sprain occurs when you overstretch the ligaments whereas a strain occurs when you overstretch muscles.

The most common cause of whiplash injuries are an automobile accident, a high-impact sports collision, or from a slip/fall type accident.

The best way to be 100% sure of why you are experiencing neck pain is to request an appointment with our Healthcare Providers at Axis Health Center in Saskatoon.

Certain diseases and illnesses can result in neck pain, such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and meningitis which can all cause neck pain.

There are many more reasons why neck pain may occur, fortunately our expert Healthcare Providers know how to identify the source of your pain and more importantly, how to find relief!

There are many causes of neck pain and this is a very short list, however, these are most common and surgery is rarely necessary to treat it successfully. If you have neck pain we encourage you to book an appointment with our chiropractic doctor or physiotherapist to discover the cause and begin treatment right away!

Neck Pain May Also Include These Symptoms

  • Difficulty sleeping due to pain and discomfort
  • Weakness in your arms or shoulders
  • Headaches that include neck pain and radiating pain from the base of the skull or behind one eye
  • Numbness or tingling in the upper extremities
  • Stiffness and muscle tightness in the upper back and neck
  • Inability to turn or sit up straight
  • Pain when remaining in the same position for too long

If you are experiencing these symptoms, our Saskatoon Chiropractor and Acupuncture clinic has the solution. Our therapists are skilled in finding and treating the source of your neck pain!

Neck Pain Treatment On 8th Street

Our Chiropractor, Physiotherapist & Acupuncturist Resolve Neck Pain

Approximately 70% of all people will experience neck pain, and up to one-third of the population have experienced neck pain at some point during the last year. Additionally, due to the nature of neck pain it can commonly return if it becomes re-aggravated. Therefore, the key to relieving neck pain is seeking help sooner rather than later!

When left untreated, neck pain can persist, get worse, and in severe situations, may require surgery. Research has shown that seeking treatment early on can help alleviate the current situation and minimize the risk of a future problem.

The most common symptom in the early stages of neck pain is pain in one side of the neck with associated loss of motion when turning in one direction. Often people will also experience tension (tightness) in the upper back muscles (i.e., traps) that is worse at the end of the day or after a long day looking at the computer screen.

Some people will notice pain when they wake up that seems to have started for no apparent reason. The discomfort might be mild or severe, ranging from dull aching to acute, stabbing aches.

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