Neck Pain Blog Posts


Neck Pain, Depressed Scapulae, and the Rib Cage

September 21, 2011
I’ve recently begun to understand how rib cage positioning is affected by the muscles attaching to it. What I didn’t expect to find is just how much rib cage positioning affects scapular positioning, thereby affecting neck pain. If you’ve read my books about neck pain and headaches or shoulder and elbow pain, y
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Chronic Neck & Shoulder Pain

March 20, 2010
I’ve had two patients referred to me recently with difficult neck and shoulder pain issues. Their complaints were of the typical pain distribution–from the base of the skull down the neck to the shoulder blade and across the top of the shoulder as well as pain in the front of their shoulders. MRIs and X-Rays [...]
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A 20-second Test for Neck Pain & Headaches

January 13, 2010
Most headaches and neck pain are due to the shoulder blades sitting too low on the trunk. There are muscles attaching from the shoulder blade directly to the first four neck vertebrae and skull. When the shoulders sit too low, these muscles then pull on the neck bones and skull causing neck pain and headaches. [...]
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The Role of the Rib Cage

July 7, 2009
I just had an interesting session with a client suffering from chronic neck, shoulder, and back pain for well over a decade. Much of her chronic pain is related to her slumping posture–it affects her spine and scapular positioning and therefore significantly contributes to her pain. In the past, I’ve focused on addre
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Fixing You

January 6, 2009
I have been writing a book detailing some very powerful self-treatment techniques I use to treat patients with chronic pain. It’s been an interesting venture because, in the process of writing the book, I now understand how my subconscious or intuition has been working to guide my treatments. This understanding, in turn, h
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When to Let My Fingers Do the Walking

September 11, 2008
Most back, neck, hip or shoulder pain I treat is resolved with correction of biomechanical problems. However there is a small percentage of people who need some soft tissue work- usually in the form of trigger point release- to get them over the final hump. Usually this is the case for shoulder and neck pain [...]
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