Is It Normal To Have Neck Pain?

No pain is normal to have. Pain is a warning sign telling you something is going on. Take your car, for example; if a red light on your dash starts flashing, you know something needs to be fixed. You wouldn’t just ignore it for the next few weeks or cover up your dash, you would remedy the problem.

Your neck pain is much the same, you don’t want to just cover it up with pain killers, and you don’t want to ignore it, or maybe you can’t ignore it because it hurts too much.

However, this is what a lot of people do. This is what leads to more problems or worse neck pain. If you leave pressure on a nerve, that nerve starts to atrophy or degenerate, and at a certain point that breakdown can become permanent.

One simple fix to relieve neck pain and take pressure off nerves is to use a good neck pillow. Our #1 recommended pillow is arc4life’s Traction Neck Pillow.



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Neck Pillow Success Story #137

Sara had been suffering with neck pain for over 4 weeks. She tried a number of different pillows and neck pillows to help relieve her neck pain. It wasn’t until she tried the cervical linear traction pillow that she awoke for the first time in weeks with no neck pain.

Some people, like Sara, may get results almost immediately, others it may take some time. In this individual’s case, she has tried neck pillows before and she has also seen a chiropractor. So, for Sara, it will be able to adjust to a new neck pillow or neck roll.

For a customer that has never used a neck pillow or neck roll, he or she may have some neck soreness when they first start using the traction pillow. It will also depend on the severity and amount of time of their condition.

So, in a lot of cases, people will take to this pillow right away, but it is also completely normal to have soreness in the beginning with this neck pillow too. In fact soreness or feeling good are both good signs that change is occurring. People with neck pain that are the same day after day is often a sign it will take longer to fix the pain.


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Tips To Fight Insomnia

Insomnia is when someone regularly has trouble falling asleep and/or staying asleep. According to the Dept. Of Health - 64 million people suffer from insomnia and insomnia affects women 1 1/2 times more than men.

Heres some tips to getting a good nights sleep.
1. Don’t eat after 7:00 pm.
2. Don’t engage in a lot of mental exercises right before bed. What I’m getting at is: doing work, or things that bring on stress.
3. Try light reading before bed.
4. Sleep in as complete darkness as you can.
5. Don’t sleep with your cell phone or computer wireless router near your head.
6. Try to get your body into habit- go to bed at similar times each night, wake up at similar times too.
7. Make sure it's not your pillow that is waking you up.


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Getting Rid of Neck Pain: Develop a Wellness Plan

Make a plan to end your pain and suffering. This should start with research into your condition. Listen to your doctors, but this doesn’t mean you have to accept their diagnoses or treatment. For example, their treatment may include strong medications that mask your problem and not necessarily something that addresses the cause of your neck pain.  For the short term, pain medication or muscle relaxers may help, but be careful on taking anything long term.
                                                   
Also, essential to your plan of attack is to have a support team in place. This may include family, friends, therapists, doctors, etc … Not only can you learn from the experiences and knowledge of your support group you need them for encouragement, support, and friendship.

Make your environment conducive to healing as well. What exactly does this mean? This refers to your surroundings- air, water, sunshine, what you’re eating, work environment. Make sure things are healthy, low-stress, non-toxic …

When it comes to getting rid of neck pain you really have to play a vital role in taking care of yourself. Remember that most healing comes from inside-out and not outside-in like a pill or drug. Medications may help, but they are often a very small piece to the puzzle of it all.


Visit Arc4life.com for your online selection of cervical support neck pillows, orthopedic pain relief products and Home traction units. Products for pain relief.


Additional Reading

• Natural Pain Relief for the Neck that Does not Include Surgery
• The Neck Pain Relief Kit
• How to Check your Own Neck Posture
• Which Neck Pillow is Right For My Needs?
• How to End Neck Pain By Doing a Cervical Tractio Protocol at Home

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Diary of A Neck Pain Sufferer

2000- Julie is a normal working mom with 3 kids, a loving husband, good job, and happy life.

2001- Chronic neck pain seemed to start in the beginning of the year, by the end of this year work becoming more difficult.

2002- Symptoms have gotten worse. Missed a lot of work due to sick days and doctors visits. Gave up coaching her daughter’s basketball team.

2005- After seeing her primary doctor, orthopedist, physical therapist, and chiropractor she still isn’t better and is starting to get depressed.

2006- Julie ends up leaving her job because it seems to aggravate her pain. She has also given up most of her leisure activities because she either can’t enjoy them anymore or just plain can’t do them without neck pain.

2007-2008- Financial strain due to not working and all the doctors visits, not to mention every other treatment or medication she could try.

Don’t let this be you!

Get after your neck pain right from the get-go. Start by getting a good neck pillow and finding good doctors or therapists that listen and that support you. The same holds true for family and friends, get a support team together that will help.

Check out http://www.arc4life.com/ for our pain relief products and remember, you can always call us to help you find what will work best for your situation.


Visit Arc4life.com for your online selection of cervical support neck pillows, orthopedic pain relief products and Home traction units. Products for pain relief.

Additional Reading Resources:

• The Neck Pain Relief Kit
• Choosing the Right Neck Pillow for your Pain
• Stiff Neck Remedies
• Neck Pain resulting from a C5, C6, C7, or C8 Radiculopathy
• Exercise For Neck Pain Works, Study Shows

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I Thought I Can Only Get Whiplash From A Car Accident

Technically whiplash is any rapid back and forth or side to side motion of the body. We most specifically use the term to refer to the neck going forward and back. It’s most often used when someone is in a car accident that involves a collision and the head and neck jerks forward and back, causing muscle, tendon, and ligament strain, vertebral shifts, and sometimes worse.

But in actuality anything that can cause your neck to “whip” back and forth is whiplash. A fall on your back, a roller coaster, a collision of your body with another, like in contact sports, are just a few examples.

Whiplash is one very common way to lose your neck curvature. If you were told you’ve lost your neck curve due to a whiplash injury or trauma, it can be from something like the examples I have given. A lot of times it happens even when we were kids. The spine shift never corrects and causes neck pain, headaches, or upper back pain in the future.


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Looking At My Posture: Advanced.

Looking At My Posture: Advanced.


A great way to analyze your posture is take a picture with a digital camera. It’s easy to look at your anterior-posterior posture in the mirror. Your lateral posture is more difficult to visualize. A picture with a camera works great. A standing x-ray is even better because it will show exactly what your spine looks like. If spine is shifted your posture will be shifted.

Another method is to look at picture already taken. Break out those family photos from last Christmas and look at your posture, you’ll learn a lot.

A tip to get your actual posture is to close your eyes, march in place a couple times, then relax and open your eyes while looking in the mirror or have someone take your picture. With your eyes open looking at your posture you will try to correct yourself without even knowing it. Another option is to just close your eyes and shake out your body. Basically, what I mean is to jiggle around, loosening up, and then stop where you think is straight.


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