I am suffering from shoulder/upper back/neck pain. How have other people over come this problem ?

Question

I am suffering from shoulder/upper back/neck pain. Basically bad frontal/head/neck posture. I am been seeing a chiropractor for 3 months and doing stretchers. Without much relief. I was wondering if there a better way.
How have other people overcome this problem ?

Answer 1

Firstly, go to your doctor and ask him to get you X-rayed. You could have a disintegrated disc that is pressing on a nerve or maybe a slipped disc. You cannot speculate until you have had the X-ray so, as I said.....get an X-ray, okies.

Answer 2

If after three months, you have not seen improvement, obviously you are wasting your time and money... I have tendonitis in my shoulders from my old job. This resulted from poor posture and poor upper body strength. I went to 4 doctors. Nothing really helped the pain because I kept working where I was. SO I QUIT!
I would see another doctor, like an orthopedic specialist, and start working out at a gym, making sure that the exercises that you do will correct the problem and not worsen it. If this starts to relieve your pain, find out the reason for the pain and stop doing it. That is the worst part about all of this. People have surgeries, go to doctors, and spend all this time and money trying to solve health issues when the easiest way to do so is to avoid the activity that started the issue in the first place!!

Answer 3

I do not accept your premise that suffering in this life is an immunization against suffering in the next. I am taking it that you do not believe in an afterlife, or in God, or creation, etc. In your belief system, then, you must accept that there is no rationale for the suffering that you might or might not endure. It is merely the happenstance of chance events that determine whether you are whole or deformed. Since chance reigns supreme, you have no need to wrestle with the great question of suffering. However, with your view you also throw out any chance of your life having a higher meaning other than that you fertilize the ground with your remains when you die. If you are only a collection of molecules that came together by chance, asking for "meaning" is a joke. If you reject the former premise, you are left with the idea that what you see in the universe is not the result of chance, but that there must be some sort of creator. And if a creator, then why suffering? And why some suffering, but not total suffering? Why are we not annihilated? Why are there good things in life to enjoy? If the creator is a sick psycho, as you suggest, it seems he gets off on watching his creation suffer. That is one way of looking at life, but it doesn't seem consistent. Why would a being create something so beautiful and complex and inticate and majestic and grand and expansive as the universe only to then get jollies from the pain he inserts into it? I don't know about you, but I find psycho's to be twisted people, not creative and genius and at the same time psychotic. The two don't go together. So, you are left with another premise. Could it be that the creator wanted beings who could relate to him of their own free will? Could it be that he knew that this would run the risk of some going their own way, making wrong and blind choices, and suffering would result but at least they would be free? To go any further for me personally would require getting into biblical teaching, which I suspect that you reject fully. At least I can tell you this: Christians do not make light of suffering. It is real and it is painful, and many, many Christians have given up their own lives to help alleviate it. We do not hold suffering to be some sort of flippant "vaccine" against a future life. However, since our lives do have meaning, we also do not hold suffering to have no purpose at all when encountered personally. I hear the bitterness in your question, and hope that you can find peace in the future.

Answer 4

Just like any profession, there are good & bad. Some are just ineffective. Find a different chiroprator that uses moist heat and does trigger point therapy with deep muscle work. Ultrasound also helps loosen very tight muscles and can be done by a chiropractor. And ask questions - it seems that you don't even know what your diagnosis is. If you don't know where to find a good chiropractor, ask at some good health food stores (not national chain stores - individually owned ones that know their stuff). With too many chiropractors you are in and out too fast and sometimes it takes more than just and typical adjustment.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Recline on a thin mat, or carpeted floor, not a bed. Position, a rolled bath towel, in the small of your back. Position a smaller rolled towel, behind your neck; relax. Experiment with different towels, and different ways of rolling them. You will find what works for you. You may also, do this in a reclining chair, or any high back chair, that leans back.

Answer 7

I have had soooo many massuers & physiotherapists tell me that Chiropracters do more harm than good. I have regular massage, take Glucosamine & use a hot pack which has beans in it designed for your neck/shoulder region. Winter (cold) makes it worse.

Answer 8

I would suggest first trying another chiropractor. Then repost your question. good luck

Answer 9

go to physical theory