Crazy neck pain thing!!!

Any updates Garzie? I hope that you're feeling better by now.

Unless you are breaking up scar tissue from an actual past injury, acupressure and trigger point release (whatever you wanna call) can sometimes be temporarily helping something that’s actually little more chronic in nature. That is usually the case and neck problems cause very few people have an actual neck injury. Whereas in other parts of the body, if you were athletic in the past, people usually have scar tissue in their muscles unknown to them. In that case, acupressure, trigger part, release, and active release technique break down the scar tissue realigning the natural tissue direction.

When the body is out of balance, the very top part of the body, your head, tries to help regain the balance, even though it’s now causing tension in your neck.

When I mentioned the atlas bone earlier that is quite a offering something that is pooh-poohed by the general public because it’s some thing they don’t hear much about it.

So what is common with tight neck muscles is exactly that, it’s constant tension, trying to correct something else ,…you might say the body is fighting itself. Trying to correct something while causing something new at the same time. So it’s quite possible if your head is off-center to your body more to the right, then your left neck muscles are going to try to compensate by pulling your head back to the left, which results in constant tight, left neck muscles. A shoulder is messed up, pulling down one side of the body, off-center with uneven weight distribution, your neck muscles might try to compensate by moving your head to whichever direction it needs to be to balance. Same can be said for spine curvature, the body will try to correct the balance by moving the head to whatever side is needed.

If you just try to relax as much as possible standing in front of a mirror with your eyes closed, then open your eyes, you might find that your head and neck are not straight on your body. This is not uncommon, but it’s not right either.

i am starting top wonder if i actually pulled a muscle or tendon while using a hydraulic press

its a bit of an unusual movement - holding an upright with my left arm outstretched while pulling a lever horizontally towards my body with my right arm

i was using a lot of force - and i remember hearing an odd noise in my neck - but oddly no pain at that time

then headaches built over the next few days - then incredibly sore neck after about a week

the lack of immediate pain meant i did not associate the two things at first ...?

Glad to hear that you’re feeling better Garzie,

I know that when I do any work with my hands overhead, I end up with tight trap muscles which tends to pull a vertebrae out of alignment in my neck (always on my right side.)

And I also lifted dumbbells overhead the wrong way and had that problem…I end up with a headache across the back of my head (top of neck area.)

I used to go to my Chiropractor for this & he told me that I had to strengthen those muscles in the upper back/neck area. He showed me some “at home” exercises to do…one was to put your back & arms against a wall and slowly raise/slide your arms upwards.

The other thing that helps me is one of those massage machines that has rotating balls that you plug in (for upper back or neck.) I can’t remember where I bought it. I just keep that on my upper back or neck area until the knot disappears…the area usually feels sore afterwards though…but at least headache is gone.

MyJourney101

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