How Chiropractic Care Can Improve Your Neck Posture

How Chiropractic Care Can Improve Your Neck Posture

Research released in May 2023 looked into a patient's 4-year journey with her neck. The neck had LOST its normal curvature

Why do we as Chiropractors care about neck curvature?

With a loss of curvature, there is INCREASED loading of the intervertebral discs and accelerated degenerative changes in the spine

Chiropractic Care Helping Your Neck Posture

This can lead to

Neck Pain

Muscle Pain

Forward Head Posture

Breathing DIfficulties

The Results

Chiropractic Care Helping Your Neck Posture- Xrays from left to right show initial loss of curve, with the end result of Cervical Lordosis

After 36 treatments over a 17-week period, the patient had improvement in their neck curve and after 4 year period, with the patient only coming in sporadically for treatment, the neck curve was still in better alignment

The treatment cycles were as follows

1st re-assessment was conducted after 36 visits over 17 weeks. Showing a near 37-degree increase in the Cervical curve

The Second reassessment occurred after 35 visits for another 17 weeks

Then Another assessment occurred after 36 visits over 25 weeks.

Then over the next two years. the patient had just over a dozen treatments and was able to maintain her cervical lordosis.

As a treat, here's a stretch that you might find helpful, For more stretches, check out our online chiropractic pain management program STAND CORRECTED today!

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

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• TMJ (Jaw Pain)

References

J Phys Ther Sci. 2023 May; 35(5): 389–394. Published online 2023 May 1. doi: 10.1589/jpts.35.389 PMCID: PMC10149297 PMID: 37131346

The treatment and rationale for the correction of a cervical kyphosis spinal deformity in a cervical asymptomatic young female: a Chiropractic BioPhysics® case report with follow-up

Paul A. Oakley, DC, PhD candidate, MSc, 1 , * Sean Z. Kallan, DC, candidate, 1 Lance D. Haines, DC, 2 and Deed E. Harrison, DC 3