Waking with Neck Pain 
If you woke this morning with a sore neck, and that was just one morning of many mornings you’ve woken with a pain in your neck, we’re sure you want to find relief. No one wants to continue waking up morning after morning knowing that it’s just going to be another day of pain they need to try to suffer through.
Though, everyone does want to get through that one day and every other day knowing they can and will live their lives pain free. That means they need to get to the source of their neck pain, but there are many conditions that can be that source. There are also many associated symptoms with neck pain including migraines and other headaches, numbness, tingling and pain into the arms and more. We listed some frequent initiating factors below and hope they give you the necessary insight to better understand what you might be suffering from.
Causes of Neck Pain
- Trauma – Damage to the top seven vertebrae in a person’s spine, also known as the cervical spine, can lead to neck pain. Whiplash or an injury leading to concussion can be the cause of this.
- Abnormalities in bones or joints – A muscle strain or tension caused by overuse, such as when sitting in front of a computer can cause this. Someone may also experience this because of sleeping in awkward positions, over exercising, a fall, or some other type of accident.
- Poor Posture – When working properly, our body is a self-sustaining machine. Proper posture is important because sitting or standing with poor posture causes organs, tissue, and more to shift. This can be a cause of uneven weight distribution throughout a person’s body and can cause neck pain.
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Assessing Your Neck’s Damage
If you are suffering from neck pain, it’s important to think back over the last few weeks to try to remember if you may have done anything to cause that sore neck. It could have resulted from something as serious as a car accident or sports-related injury, or it might be due to a fall you took or just sitting in front of the computer for too long.
Of course, the injury that led to that neck pain may have happened long before you began to experience that head or neck pain. Any damage to your neck because of a severe accident only makes your neck more susceptible to further damage that can lead to neck pain. That’s because a misalignment in your upper cervical spine, which are the top two vertebrae in your neck, of only ¼ of a millimeter can cause your entire body to shift.
Luckily, an upper cervical chiropractor can examine your upper neck vertebrae for any misalignments that may be the underlying cause of that neck pain. They will make any necessary adjustments, so as to restore your body so those organs and tissue will be properly aligned. This will allow your body to heal itself, thus alleviating that neck pain.
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