Neck Pain in O'Fallon MO?
Neck pain is frustrating to deal with because we must use our neck in everything we do. Neck pain can quickly start affecting your quality of life from making work unbearable to not being able to enjoy precious time with your family.
The weight of our head is about 10 pounds. For every inch our head falls forward from poor posture, that adds another 10 pounds of weight to the structures of your neck. The increasing use of technology today has had a severely negative impact on our posture and has created the condition “tech neck”. Neck pain in kids is commonly due to postural imbalance from excessive screen time. This can produce degenerative change in the neck much earlier than what is typically seen.
Our O’Fallon chiropractor will diagnose the root cause of your neck pain and give you various treatment options and lifestyle recommendations based on your goals.
Causes of Neck Pain
Neck pain has many causes and here are the most common causes:
- Restricted joint motion in the neck
- Muscular strains
- Postural imbalances
- Mental stress
- Degenerative changes in the bones and joints of the neck
- Excessive technology use (tech neck)
One thing all of these causes have in common is that they all involve a restriction of movement in the joints of the neck. Joints that do not move are joints that hurt. Pain will come and go, but the underlying issue of restricted joint motion still remains. It is important to address neck pain sooner than later before it can become a serious problem.
Neck Pain Treatment in O'Fallon MO
Our O’Fallon chiropractor will perform an in-depth exam and figure out the root cause of your neck pain as well as take the time to understand your goals.
Our chiropractor uses hands-on manual adjusting, muscular trigger point release, manual decompression, and muscle stretching to relieve your pain and get lasting relief. This can greatly help reduce muscle spasms, slow degenerative changes, and remove pressure from the nerves and discs.
If you have neck pain, shoulder pain, or numbness and tingling into the arms or hands, chiropractic care in O’Fallon MO will get you better results, faster.