- Neck pain can be caused be many different factors including accidents, poor posture, awkward sleeping positions, arthritis, or a muscle sprain. While neck pain is very common, it’s definitely not normal. While this can be a relatively trivial event, neck pain can cause more serious issues (depending on the cause) such as numbness, tingling, or shooting pain down your arm. That radiating type of pain is likened to sciatica in your upper body.
- Nerve pathways from the neck can become irritated that cause pain in the shoulder, elbow, wrist, or hand. In some cases, it actually causes headaches as well. Neck pain that is due to poor ergonomic postures or sleeping in a weird position usually clears up within a few days. Though it can be quite the inconvenience. However, if more serious symptoms like sharp, shooting pain occurs you should seek medical attention
- Prior to any treatment, Dr. Lea will perform a thorough examination as well as perform diagnostic imaging to figure out the underlying cause prior to any correction of the spine. If we, as humans, look different on the outside then you can rest assured we look different on the inside.
- As an Upper Cervical Chiropractor, Dr. Lea is well positioned to help patients who are struggling with neck pain via gentle, safe, yet effective corrections to the spine in addition to non-surgical spinal decompression treatments.