How Poor Posture Causes Neck Pain, and How a Chiropractor Can Help
Sitting at a computer all day or spending hours staring at your phone or laptop can affect your cervical spine. Over time, your cervical spine, nerves, muscles, and tendons can become strained, causing neck pain and stiffness. Your risk of neck pain increases if you have poor posture. At Family Chiropractic Center, we offer care that improves posture and reduces neck pain in Coral Springs, FL. Through safe, drug-free chiropractic care, we can help you avoid chronic neck pain.
Added Stress on Your Cervical Spine
When you have poor posture while seated, your head may tilt upward or downward. This increases the weight and pressure put on your cervical spine, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. After hours and days of supporting that extra strain, your neck becomes tired and fatigued. Keep in mind that for every inch the head is tilted forward due to poor posture, an extra 10 pounds of pressure is put on the cervical spine.
Hyperflexion & Hyperextension
Hyperflexion and Hyperextension injuries occur when the head and neck are thrown forward and backward with enough force to cause the neck to move further that it’s normal range of motion. These injuries often occur in automobile accidents but they can also occur in sports, falls and other traumatic events. These injuries cause an unnatural stretching of the spinal cord and nerve roots.
Stressed & Overloaded Muscles
The muscles of your neck, shoulders, and upper back work overtime when poor posture increases pressures on your body. This causes your muscles to become strained and stressed, making them more susceptible to rips, tears, and spasms.
Stressed & Overloaded Muscles
The muscles of your neck, shoulders, and upper back work overtime when poor posture increases pressures on your body. This causes your muscles to become strained and stressed, making them more susceptible to rips, tears, and spasms.
Hunched Upper Back
Poor posture often causes weakness in the upper back which leads to forward shoulders and a rounded upper back. Keck pain, upper back pain, and shoulder pain often become side effects of poor posture. The longer you spend with your shoulders hunched, the more likely you are to experience neck pain, stiffness, and decreased of range of motion.
Long-Term Complications of Poor Posture
Long term poor posture causes your neck, upper back, and shoulders to experience increased amounts of stress. This causes muscle and spinal imbalances, increased risk of spinal degeneration, reduced range of motion and flexibility, and a higher chance of permanent disability and chronic neck pain.
How Our doctors Provide Neck Pain Relief in Coral Springs, FL
Our doctors evaluate your posture and the bio-mechanical fitness of your spine to provide posture correction and neck pain relief in Coral Springs, FL. By combining chiropractic care methods like chiropractic adjustments, physiotherapy, at-home exercises and stretches, activity modification, workplace ergonomics, and the Graston Technique, we can alleviate neck pain, stiffness, inflammation, and loss of range of motion - and improve your posture. Call us today or schedule an appointment online.
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