Connected Chiropractic Helps Restore Limited Neck Range of Motion and Pain
What does neck pain do? It keeps you from moving your neck the way you want. Pain is crazy that way! It prevents us from doing things that could hurt. Ok, that is not all bad! But neck pain can disturb more than just motion. It can alter daily living. Elgin chiropractic at Connected Chiropractic can help relieve neck pain and restore its normal motion.
NECK PAIN LIMITS MOTION
Not merely does neck pain limit cervical spine motion, it also necessitates compensatory motions to do what needs to be done. If the neck hurts when twisting to the right, you will not do that. That’s a compensatory motion. Normal flexion/extension, lateral, and rotational motions have been recorded in normal patients. (1) And if you think your ability to reposition your neck affects your life, think about baseball pitchers! College baseball pitchers with limited neck motion during preseason were found to be at higher risk of game time loss and shoulder and elbow disability during the season. (2) That’s really life-changing for them and their life dreams! Know that your Elgin chiropractor can tell from a thorough clinical examination just what pain is doing to your normal range of motion and how to help you (your being a baseball player or not!) get it back.
NECK ISSUES INFLUENCE SLEEP APNEA
Another curious cervical spine discovery is that prior cervical spondylosis – degenerative changes in the cervical spine that often appear with aging, resulting in vertebral bone degeneration, disc degeneration, bone spur formation and the like - and obstructive sleep apnea are associated. Such sleep apnea is connected to cervical spine changes that tighten the airway space that occur with cervical spondylosis. (3) Cervical spondylosis is another spinal issue your Elgin chiropractor understands well.
CHIROPRACTIC RESTORES NECK MOTION
Connected Chiropractic implements careful treatment of the cervical spine using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. Patient tolerance is continually the guiding factor alongside the doctor’s hand. Cox® Technic for cervical spine allows gentle stretching of the spine to open narrowed spaces with combined ranges of motion to restore better cervical spine movement.
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ben Glass on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how he eases neck pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule a Elgin chiropractic appointment with Connected Chiropractic to get back lost neck motion and get rid of neck pain.
