Is Your Neck at Risk? 11 Factors That Could Be Causing Your Pain.

Is Your Neck at Risk? 11 Factors That Could Be Causing Your Pain.

With the shift to online learning and working from home, there has been an increase in neck pain reported around the world

Research in August looked into college students to see what was causing the neck pain and identified 11 risk factors... and they are... drum roll, please...

1. Improper use of a pillow

2. lack of exercise

3. improper sitting posture

4. history of neck pain

5. shoulder trauma

6. staying up late

7. long term electronic use ( our other blogs have discussed this, but try and keep the phone use to under 30 minutes a day)

8. long time to bow head

9. high stress

10. emotional problems

11. being female

Our team can help with most of these issues and give you great tips and advice.

Neck Pain Chiropractor

Q: What causes neck pain that chiropractors treat?Common causes include poor posture, desk work, whiplash, and muscle tension.

Q: How does chiropractic care relieve neck pain?Through gentle spinal adjustments, soft tissue therapy, and posture correction.

Q: Is it safe to adjust the neck?Yes, when performed by a qualified chiropractor, neck adjustments are safe and effective.

Q: Can chiropractic help with tech neck?Absolutely — chiropractic care can ease strain from long hours at computers or devices.

Here's a special treat! One of our many videos about stretching from our STAND CORRECTED online pain management programs, we hope it helps. ENJOY!

If you want more information about how we can help . Please call Health Wise Chiropractic 03 9467 7889 or book online to see one of our Chiropractors in Sunbury or Melton/Strathtulloh Today!

Chiropractic has moved online. We offer our online programs -STAND CORRECTED- To help you through the day. They contain health advice for your conditions, nutritional advice and exercises for you to do at home or at the workplace to help you achieve your health goals. We understand that coming to the Chiropractic clinic maybe costly and time consuming. This way if you cant make it into the chiropractic office, you can do any of our 20+ online health programs at your leisure.

Enjoy and we hope they spark a little bit of joy and help you achieve your health goals. Each program contains - Information about the conditions - things to do and things to avoid - nutrition advice - all the stretches that are needed to help The following conditions are now available for online sessions

• migraine

• cervicogenic headaches

• cervical facet neck pain

• tension headaches

• cervical radiculopathy (pins and needles in the arm originating from the neck)

• shoulder impingement relief

• thoracic outlet syndrome

• frozen shoulder

• rotator cuff

• chronic lumbar (Low Back) disc pain

• acute Lumbar(low back) disc pain

• Lumbar facet pain

• sciatica and piriformis syndrome

• meniscus (knee pain)

• Plantar fasciitis (Foot Pain)

• Shin Splints

• Tennis Elbow/Golfers elbow

• Carpal tunnel Syndrome

• Upper Crossed Syndrome( Poor Posture)

• Lower Crossed Syndrome ( Poor Posture)

• Dizziness-Vertigo

• Arthritis

• Welcome To Chiropractic

• TMJ (Jaw Pain)

Reference

BMC Public Health . 2023 Aug 8;23(1):1502. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16212-7.

Risk factors for neck pain in college students: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Yifang Gao 1, Zhiming Chen 2, Shaoqing Chen 3 4, Shizhong Wang 5 6, Jianping Lin 7 8