What to Expect When Losing Your Neck Curve: Effects on Muscles
A cervical Lordosis is defined as a NORMAL inward curvature
Loss of Neck curvature is associated with Neck Pain, Headaches, Reduced quality of life
Cervical Kyphosis, is the most common DEFORMITY affecting the normal function of the cervical spine and causes significant disability in affected patients
Due to everyones SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE, increasing number of people are losing this normal curvature and suffering from cervical straightening and kyphosis
A major predictor is the amount of slouching a person does when seated. ( a slouched posture is associated with forward head posture)
This is why we recommend technology use to being limited to 30 minutes a day as phone and computer use is a major contributor
Researchers found that the Upper Trapezius and Rhomboid muscles where the most affected with loss of cervical lordosis
Furthermore, a loss of cevical lordosis may provoke overfilling of the upper trapezius muscles.
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!
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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)
Reference
Analysis of abnormal muscle activities in patients with loss of cervical lordosis: a cross-sectional study
Jiwoon Lim,
Dajeong Lee,
Sangyoung Kim,
Seungeun Lee &
Ju Seok Ryu
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders volume 24, Article number: 666 (2023
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