Your neck carries the weight of your world and it’s often the first place to get tight and complain when life and stress drags your head forward. Screens pull your gaze down and tension settles in. Neck pain often shows up without warning; stiffness in the morning followed by a sharp pinch when you turn your head, or a lingering ache after hours at a desk. While it may feel sudden, there’s usually a clear reason your neck starts to protest. Understanding what’s happening inside the joints, … [Read more...] about Why Your Neck Hurts (and What to Do About It)
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The Link between Stress and Headaches
The Link Between Stress and Headaches Are you feeling rushed? Are you dreading a big meeting at work? Take it from the leading provider of natural tension headache treatment in Seattle - these events can all add up to stress and headaches. Often it's not the event itself that results in a headache but your body's reaction to stress. If you deal with stress by clenching your jaw or tensing your muscles, you may be more likely to experience headaches due to these coping behaviors. So, … [Read more...] about The Link between Stress and Headaches
Postural Stress: The Link Between Tech Neck and Pain
While it’s true that your anatomy can contribute to the levels of postural stress you experience, so can many of the small decisions you make each day. You’ve probably seen an article or two floating around the web about the relationship between tech neck and pain. You may have even seen an uptick in commercials for neck pain treatment in Seattle, and for good reason Did you know that many of us spend 2 hours or more per day on our smartphones and 5 hours or more on our … [Read more...] about Postural Stress: The Link Between Tech Neck and Pain
Improving Your Posture to Keep Your Spine Healthy
Spending more time on the couch, at your computer, and on your mobile devices has probably led you to visit Google to search for ways to start improving your posture a time or two. Those searches have probably also left you wondering… what exactly is posture? Well, posture is the position that your body maintains while standing, sitting, or lying down. To put it another way, posture is how you hold your body. To put it yet another way, posture is the particular stance you have when … [Read more...] about Improving Your Posture to Keep Your Spine Healthy
Is There a Perfect Posture?
"Sit up straight and stop slouching!" We’ve all heard (or said) it a million times in the name of having perfect posture. You've likely heard this since childhood, and for good reason. Poor posture as a kid can create health challenges later in life. Rounded shoulders (scapular protrusion), swayback (lumbar hyperlordosis) and a hunched upper back (thoracic hyperkyphosis) are all postural imbalances that place a tremendous amount of stress on the spine. And when those imbalances … [Read more...] about Is There a Perfect Posture?
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