Is Your Job The Cause Of Your Headaches?
Being a Bellevue chiropractor, and after seeing thousands of patients over the years, I have begun to see certain patterns in certain groups of patients. For instance, woman who wear high heels for many years have a VERY high likely hood they will have low back pain. Another one is people who have computer jobs all have very similar neck and back problems, and their necks all have a certain look to them. This has become so common in the city that I practice, Bellevue WA, because of the many computer jobs, that I have coined the term “Bellevue Neck”.
So why do these people with computer jobs all have similar looking necks? Sitting at a computer causes the head and neck to tip forward, and then jut forward. If you keep the head and neck in this posture for long enough it will get stuck there. This is a bad thing.
My post doctorate study’s are in chiropractic neurology through the Carrick Institute of Graduate Studies. In neurological text we call this bending “plasticity”. Now the good news is that “plasticity” goes both ways. In the negative, getting stuck out of position. In the positive, being able to make changes back to the correct position.
When I see postures of the neck where is jutting out in front of the body or where the shoulders are rolled forward, I diagnose this as “Bellevue Neck”. What this neck straightening does is put tension on the spinal cord, and stress on the whole body.
Just this week I had 4 people come to see me with the effects of Bellevue neck. One was having headaches, two were having middle back pain, and the fourth was having pain in her jaw. As a Bellevue chiropractor I assess if you are a candidate for chiropractic care and help reverse the damage that a strait neck has done to your body.
Do you want to find out if you have Bellevue Neck? Visit www.bellevuechiropractorblog.com to schedule your consultation with Dr. Weir today!