Your Body Often Knows When It Needs Aligning …

What really is neck pain or back pain? It’s your body telling you something is wrong. It’s like your car engine light going on saying it’s time to check your engine. A pain response is similar. That warning is going off saying it’s time to get checked.

The whole reason I thought of my title and the subject I’m writing about is from an episode of Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice. A couple of episodes back John Rich was having a headache. I noticed he was often twisting his head to the side- self adjusting it or “cracking” it, or at least trying.

Why might he have been doing this?

The answer is simple- your body often knows what it needs! Doing this may give some relief. He was no doubt under a lot of stress from his current task at hand, not to mention dealing with delegating to others, plus probably lack of sleep, maybe food too …

All of these things contribute to neck strain and discomfort. Also, knowing that over 90% of headaches come from the neck (cervicogenic in nature), it’s a normal body response to try and fix the problem.

Hopefully he slept on a good neck pillow to help fix his neck that night. There’s no doubt the stress relief from the task being over helped as well. Good luck to John and his opponent- Marlee Matlin for the finale coming up.

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The Dangers of Lack of Sleep...

With our fast-paced, ever-progressing society, it’s not a huge surprise that sleep is something that people are getting less and less of. With technology always changing, and a new gadgets coming out every month, many more people are staying up later on their iphones or laptops or video games or just watching TV. This can create a habit of bad-sleeping patterns. And with a sleep problem, other health problems will begin to show up shortly thereafter.

The short-term effects of missing out on sleep include poorer performance, both at work and in other activities of daily life, and a worse memory. You are also at a higher risk for work or car accidents while excessively tired.

The long-term consequences are even more severe. A continual lack of sleep over the years can lead to high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, obesity, ADD, depression, and an overall poor quality of life. Before letting your sleep problems lead to even more health problems, speak to your doctor or chiropractor about steps you can take to get a more restful night’s sleep.

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Simple tips to sleep

We have discussed in this blog the great importance of sleep and how we are affected when we do not get enough. These consequences of lack of sleep include less energy for physical activity and dealing with stress, difficulty concentrating, increased mistakes, more prone to accidents, and an immune system that is weakened and not at its best to fight illness.
Start your day off right with a good night’s sleep. Below are tips for better sleep:

• Give yourself “permission” to go to bed. Put your “to do” list away and make sleep a priority.
• Unwind early in the evening.
  
• Develop a sleep ritual. Do the same things each night before you go to bed to signal to your body that it is time for sleep.
  
• Keep regular bedtime and waking hours.
  
• Create a restful place to sleep.
  
• Sleep on a comfortable bed.
  
• Exercise regularly, but avoid exercising late in the day.
  
• If you drink coffee, avoid drinking the caffeinated beverage in the evening.
  
• Don’t smoke.
  
• If you drink, reduce alcohol intake. Drinking alcohol shortly before bedtime interrupts and fragments sleep.

Orthopaedically correct sleep is when you sleep in a position that does not cause stress to the spine, the muscular system, or nerves. The position that works well for most healthy people is the fetal position. A person lies on either side, with the legs flexed toward the abdomen and the back is also slightly flexed. This takes stress off the spine and allows the organs to spread themselves out, so there is less intra-abdominal pressure against the diaphragm. A neck pillow under the head or neck will deflect a lot of weight from the shoulder you are lying on. Try our Cervical traction neck pillow- it will give you good neck support while you sleep and also lightly traction your neck at the same time.