Neck PainNeck pain can be caused by injury, disease, stress or faulty postural alignment. While illness and disease are usually treated medically, pain resulting from stress and poor posture can usually be alleviated by correcting alignment problems. Even when medical treatment has been used to cure disease or injury related neck pain, many people have become adapted to the posture they were using when they were ill or injured. Eventually, because of chronic misuse, the neck pain returns.
Neck pain can be related to office ergonomics. The forward head posture used at our work stations can cause chronic pain. At BetterPosture.com, our 12 minute program will correct the muscular imbalances that cause poor posture, thereby eliminating neck pain.
Stress related neck pain can be alleviated by using a technique borrowed from the theatre world called "acting from the outside in." This technique is used when an actor is having difficulty finding a particular emotion associated with a role. By changing the actor's postural alignment to indicate a specific emotional state, the actor begins to believe in that state of mind, and presents a realistic performance. Since the muscles of the upper back and neck are responsive to our emotional state, they often become tense when we are stressed and feeling "the weight of the world on our shoulders."
The problem then perpetuates itself. Tight neck and shoulders cause dysfunctional breathing, which in turn creates a higher state of anxiety. Correcting posture can correct breathing problems which may alleviate anxiety. Try this now. As you sit reading this, imagine that you are uplifting and opening up your chest cavity with a pulley system. How do you feel? Much better, yes? The posture program on BetterPosture.com can help you feel this way all the time!