3 reasons you might have neck pain
Ever wonder why it feels so good to lay your head down on your pillow at the end of the day, especially if you have neck pain?
If you’re an over-thinker like me, laying your head down is a signal to your brain that it can pause and take some time to rest.
And much of that over-thinking probably shows up as stress and tension that you carry in your neck and shoulders.
But there are also postural reasons you might be feeling some neck pain.
So let’s address those right now.
Due to our reliance on technology both personally and professionally, many of us spend most of our days in what’s called forward head posture.
This means that instead of your cranium sitting directly on top of the axis of your cervical spine (your neck), it is shifted forward so that if you were to look at your profile from the side, you would see the head in front of the shoulders instead of in line with them.
For every inch the head is shifted forward the weight of the head increases by 10 lbs.
For some of us that means the neck muscles are working to support and hold up a head that weighs up to 40 lbs in relation to the abnormal leverage forward head posture puts on the cervical spine and the neck muscles!
Luckily there are a lot of very simple and fast exercises and stretches you can practice that help move the head back into optimal position, retrain the body to choose proper alignment and release any current tension you might be feeling in the neck muscles.
