Neck Tension & Pain Causes

Neck tension and Pain is a very common complaint which makes people seek acupuncture treatment. The tension of the neck happens due to poor posture, specifics of the profession like tilting the head while looking onto the screen of computer monitor. Having tendency to tilt the head to the left, right or chin up. Some people watch TV that is located too high or too low. They adjusting the neck position to unhealthy / unnatural one in order to watch TV.  Some drivers elevate the chin in order to look in the rare view mirror. All these positions of the neck become habitual. As a consequence, the front neck muscles contract while the back neck muscles elongate or vice versa. This is how the poor postural habit initiated or developed in an acute pain or tension that after a while into chronic condition. 

Neck Tension & Pain via Japanese Medical Health Perception

• Kink in vertebral artery blocking the blood supply to basilar artery
• Stagnation of blood in neck muscles
• Lymphatic stagnation in front neck muscles
• Spasm in levator scapulae muscle
• Neck Vertebrae subluxation
• Nerve pinched
• Scalene muscles tense and achy / sore
• Trapezius muscle tense and achy / sore
• Neck problem is related to digestive problem like low acid level in stomach
• Neck achy due to Liver and Pancreas weakness
• Neck tension due to stress and anxiety
• Neck vertebrae achy due to Dysfunction of Kidneys (bone condition)
• C1, first cervical vertebra subluxation
• Sphenoid bone subluxation

Acupuncture helps

As any pain, neck pain and tension are a substantial reason to seek acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture will help to alleviate the pain and release the muscle tension. Japanese medical assessment will help to recognize the root cause and acupuncturist besides helping you to feel better will educate you about the cause, explain what should be changed in your posture, in your diet or how to regulate your emotions to prevent this problem occurrence in the future.

Understand What is Pain

As psychologists say, people try to avoid the pain at any cost and tend to seek pleasure.

• Pain is nothing but an unpleasant message that is sent by brain through the nerve system to assure that you know there is a health problem in your body
• Often, pain is a result of injury, infection or inflammation in the muscles, ligaments, tendons, or organs
• Without pain we can feel comfortable and think we are absolutely healthy which is a wrong assumption
• Pain is not your enemy but rather is your ally
• The sooner you are informed about health problem, the sooner you can reach out for help

Acupuncture is the thousands years proven solution for any pain.

Why People Seek Acupuncture Treatment

• Sudden pain no one can explain
• Constant Chronic pain
• Sport related traumas
• Work related injuries
• Sprains, strains, bone fractures
• Nerve impingement
• Any discomforts and pains
• Nothing else helps

People Explain Why They Avoid Acupuncture Treatment

• The most people come to see acupuncturist as a last resort
• Nonetheless that acupuncture is the quick, most effective, and efficient help one can ever get, people seem to hesitate choosing ‘the needles’… until nothing seems to help
• Some people will rather suffer from pain than see acupuncturist because their fear of needles or ‘imaginary pain the needling can give them’
• Fear of needles is critical and absolutely irrelevant

The stereotype of the ‘needle’ based on comparing acupuncture needle to a needle used for the blood test

Conclusion

• Pain is not a disease, but a symptom. The painkillers just mask the symptom but you might never know what caused the pain. It is nice when pain is gone and doesn’t bother you anymore yet think about consequences
• Accept the pain as a valuable information and seek help immediately
• Ask your doctor to run some tests
• Come to see a reputable acupuncturist
• Sometimes you don’t need the tests if you have knowledgeable Advanced Japanese style acupuncturist. The practitioner will suggest the tests if they are necessary
• The sooner you book acupuncture appointment, the sooner you get helped
  Usually with simple trauma you need 1-3 acupuncture visits
• When you undergo acupuncture treatment you are in a “healing mode”. Stay away from physical activity. Do nothing – neither exercise, physical work nor anything that elicit the pain. Remember, do not exercise or do any activity through the pain. Take a break for 15-30 minutes during which you should rest and gently tap the problematic place with a loose fist; then continue your activity without feeling pain