Neck Pain Relief Treatment Irvine CA

The neck is the most flexible and most vulnerable part of your spine—this is where the spinal cord leaves your brain and travels out to deliver messages to the rest of the body, so it also does a crucial job. Yet imagine trying to balance a 10 to 12 pound watermelon on the end of a stick with the help of just a few rubber bands and you can understand why the neck is so easy to injure. Fortunately, Dr. Lee, our chiropractor in Irvine, has a host of natural neck pain treatment options to provide relief and thorough healing.

When the head is suddenly whipped back and forth due to car accident injury, sports injury or other personal injury, the vertebrae can be jostled out of alignment. The muscles, ligaments and tendons are also strained. Neck pain, stiffness, headaches, difficulty focusing and even blurred vision can result. Our chiropractor provides spinal adjustments to correct subluxations in the vertebrae, combined with therapeutic exercises to heal the soft tissue injuries, relieve the painful symptoms and restore full range of motion in the neck.

Frequent “forward head posture” (FHP) from looking down over a computer or other work surface, as well as poor sleep posture, etc. can slowly pull neck vertebrae out of alignment and cause the neck’s supporting soft tissues to become incorrectly conditioned to this nerve-pinching posture. Spinal adjustments and therapeutic exercises, as well as ergonomics counseling are effective at retraining the soft tissues, strengthening neck muscles and providing neck pain relief.

Stress often causes tension in the neck muscles and prevents people from concentrating on good posture.