A Pain in The Neck

Your head, weighing about 10% of your body weight, is much like a bowling ball sitting on top of the relatively slender, flexible structure, known as your neck.

Each inch that your head moves forward in your standing or sitting posture, the weight of the head on the neck increases by 10 pounds. Unbalanced neck posture can lead to a forward head position which is one of the most common causes of tension and pain in the head, neck and shoulders.

In addition to sports injuries and trauma (whiplash), misalignment of the neck can result from strains and sprains or weak neck muscles as well as other causes. These conditions and improper everyday head and neck positions can in turn lead to sleeper neck, driver neck, geek neck, reader neck, couch neck and texting neck.

Dr. Jeffers offers treatment for neck (cervical) pain. As your San Diego Chiropractor, Dr. Jeffers specializes in caring for non-surgical conditions of the shoulder, arm, back, hip, leg, foot and neck with a gentle approach that deals with mechanical and neurological or nerve-related causes of pain.

Dr. Jeffers is a specialist in spinal manipulation or the active, hands-on care that returns motion to a part of the body with restricted movement and / or pain. With the return of normal body mechanics, your muscles relax and pain is resolved.

In the case of neck pain – restricted motion of the spine can cause neck pain.

Neck conditions that Dr. Jeffers treats and those which respond to chiropractic care include such issues as:

• cervical sprain injuries
• spine joint restriction issues
• facet joint sprain
• "whiplash" injuries
• cervical disc injuries
• stiff neck
• acute neck stiffness (or torticollis) which occurs when neck muscles stay contracted and can even hold the neck in a twisted position
• neck degenerative joint syndrome
• multiple types of chronic neck pain

Before deciding on the appropriate approach for pain treatment, Dr. Jeffers performs an examination to diagnose the specific cause of the pain.
If you visit Dr. Jeffers with a neck pain problem, he will still evaluate your entire spine as a mechanical whole. He will check your neck, mid-back and low back. Even though the pain may only manifest in your neck, it is important to examine your entire spine as other regions may be affected.

Dr. Jeffers determines regions and points of disc injury, restricted joint motion, muscle spasm, or ligament injury by checking joint movement, tenderness and tightness. He also analyzes your walk and spinal alignment which helps him understand the integrated function of your spine and body mechanics.

The neck is a vulnerable area and neck problems can often occur in athletes and runners. It is an area where stress has a tendency to accumulate for runners, office workers, drivers, computer-users and people with life-stress in general. Seeing someone grab the back of their neck and squeeze it is very common for a runner, and the probability of neck pain occurring for any runner at some point in their life is high.

Dr. Jeffers treats your neck pain quickly, gently and effectively.

Call Jeffers Chiropractic today and get rid of your pain in the neck.

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