Physical Therapy Guide for Neck Pain Relief

In this Corona Virus Pandemic, most people have started to work from home, as it is getting tough to be out day by day. Sitting in front of your laptop, Working all day long can cause your neck pain. Being 50 years old or more than that can make it severe and unbearable. Neck pain usually occurs at the back of the neck, upper-spine area, and just below the head. If some specific nerves are affected, it can go as far as affecting shoulders, upper arms, etc.

Women are more prone to neck pain than men. Not sitting up straight, genetic disorders, smoking, drinking, lifting heavy objects in routine, and obesity can be the risk factors behind neck pain. If you work most hours just by sitting at your desk, that can cause neck pain too.

Neck pain can affect your Work life as well as daily life, and that’s where physiotherapy (physical therapy) comes to help. Proper physical therapy can relieve the pain if you follow it as per the instructions.

 

How will you recognize and understand if you have Neck Pain? 

If you have neck pain, you’ll feel certain things:

• Sudden rigidity on your neck
• Needle-like pain on your neck
• the ache could be dull or stabbing, tingling and severely aching
• A throbbing on your neck

 

Signs and Symptoms for Neck Pain: 

Some specific aspects will indicate if you have neck pain. If you feel those things repeatedly and if it hampers your regular activities and working lifestyle, you need to think about it very seriously.

The signs and symptoms include:

• Pain on the neck, upper spine area, just below the head.
• If it gets severe, pain can increase and affect your shoulder blades, upper arms, and spine.
• If some specific nerves are affected, they do not function properly.
• Vomiting and not being able to sit or stand straight.
• A dull, throbbing ache on the neck that will make unable to rotate your neck.
• Stabbing, tingling pain that continues.
• Not being able to look behind yourself and looking up.
• Muscle spasms.

Neck pain can be caused by:

• Working continuously on your desk.
• If some specific spinal nerves got any defect.
• Lifting heavy things etc.

 

Physical Therapy for Neck Pain: 

Recent studies have declared that physical therapy is a far better option for treating neck pains than any medicine or surgery. If you follow the instructions that are given by your physical therapist, you may not even need any surgery.

The Physical Therapy for Neck Pain will be designed exclusively for you based on your problems, causes, and if you have any genetic disorder, etc. Your physiotherapist may work with your physician and can make you relieve the pain so that you can get back to your normal regular lifestyle.

Depends on your pain, the time it needs to heal the pain may vary. Your physical therapist can give some suggestions which will help you as follows:

Reduce pain and other problems: In physical therapy, your activities that are causing the pain will be custom modified so that they don’t get to increase the pain. The latest treatments and technologies are used to control and decrease the signs and symptoms of pain.

• No need for surgery:

Your physical therapist will design a treatment that is exclusively for you, depends on your severity and causes of the pain, even for radiculopathy. In most cases, even for radiculopathy, if you follow instructions accordingly, you can avoid surgery.

• Improve posture:

If the source of your neck pain is your posture, your standing, and sitting style, then your physical therapist will guide you so that your posture will get improve ultimately reducing the pain day by day.

• Regain your flexibility:

Due to neck pain, some of your muscles can become rigid and tight. Physical therapy will help you to improve that as well. That may involve light stretching exercises, jogging, yoga, and meditation supervised by your physical therapist that can help you to improve your body so that you can maintain your lifestyle.

• Maintain your strength and the motion:

You may have stiff joints because of the neck pain. The passive motion which will be performed by your physical therapist can make it right. If you have any injured muscle, you will be instructed to perform light stretching, exercises that are designed especially for you. You can perform these at your home in a scheduled time.

• Maintain your regular activities:

With the help of physical therapy, you can get back to your regular activities and maintain a healthy life in no time, just follow the instructions and work accordingly.

 

Back In Motion Physical Therapy In Cape Coral encourages you to find a proper physical therapy, that will be designed for you and relieve your pain. By doing so, you can return to your work life and can do your favorite activities without breaking a sweat!