How Chronic Neck Pain Can Be Alleviated?

Having chronic neck pain is really frustrating. If you have it, you know hard it can be to find relief from your symptoms.

What are the things you’ve tried to relieve your pain? There are 3 simple things which are actually helpful in relieving your pain.

1. Limit your hand-held phone use

Most of us do have mobile phones – may it be for communication, browsing the internet or for work. Whatever the reason is, people usually don’t think that too much phone use can provoke neck pain by cradling their phone in their neck while talking to someone. This habit results in extra strain on the cervical spine.. Additionally, staring down at phones for an extended period of time can place up to 60 pounds of pressure on your neck muscles and ligaments.  That’s quite interesting, right?

2. Make sure you are always hydrated

Did you know that at birth, the discs between the vertebrae in your cervical spine (neck) are compromised of roughly 80 percent water. As we age, the ratio of water decreases and that can lead for our discs to lose height, spine to come out of ligament and an increase pressure to the spine.

Staying hydrated during the day help us to avoid further degeneration in our cervical discs and helps to lessen or even avoid neck pain.

3. Heat therapy to reduce neck pain

Nowadays, it can be easy to overlook the benefits of heat therapy. But if you suffer from chronic neck pain, 20 minutes of applying a heating pad or hot water bottle may produce an increase in the flow of oxygen and nutrients to your muscles, which helps encourage healing in your neck. It can also help in stretching the soft tissues around your spine, which decreases the stiffness in your neck.

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