Will My Neck Pillow Help with my Neck Pain Over the Long Haul?

 Absolutely!  Sometimes it will be a quick fix for your pain in the neck also.  The key, however, is to think about the long term.  Using the pillow will often help to correct spinal alignment and neck posture over time.  It just won’t do it overnight, reason being is that it has probably taken some time for your posture to shift out of place. 

            The pillow may align things enough to take pressure off of the nerves creating pain or relax muscles that are tensioned.  It may also help inflammation dissipate, which often builds up with misalignments and muscle tension creating more nerve pressure. 

            So, use a neck pillow to help realign your neck or maintain your neck alignment.  It’s typically going to take some time so rest assured (literally!) that it’s working.  You may even benefit from some short term neck pain relief.  In the long haul, using your pillow when you’re not in pain, will keep neck pain away too!

Have you ever experienced neck
pain when you wake up in the morning?  

Additional Reading Resources

• Choose the Right Neck Pillow for Neck Pain
• Remedy for A Stiff Neck
• How to Get  A Restful Sleep When you Are Suffering with Neck Pain
• No More Neck Pain. Simple Tips to Keeping a Healthy Neck
• Heal Neck Injuries with the Tri Core Family of Support Neck Pillows

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My Hands go “Tingly” when I Sleep

Most often what we see is that this person’s pillow has lost its support. Now, if the hands are going numb and tingling all day, it’s a different story, but in this case the individual only gets the tingling when she is sleeping.

If the pillow has lost support or just doesn’t have the support to begin with, then it will allow your spinal curve to flatten.

We all have or should have a nice C-curve in the neck. If our pillow has no support or has lost its support it flattens and your neck will go flat too. When this happens or when you lost the normal neck alignment in any way you will put pressure on nerves. Nerves also communicate to blood vessels, so for these reasons the hands or arms will get that sleepy or tingly sensation.

Really, this is a major reason for using a neck pillow. Neck pillows are made with extra support in a neck roll to hold the right neck posture. This keeps the spine in place and nerve communication intact.

Addtional Reading Resources

• Yoga Can Help You Sleep Better
• Remedy for A Stiff Neck
• Pinched Nerve in the Neck
• How to Choose the Right Neck Pillow
• Natural Treatment for Occipital Neuralgia discovered by Chance

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Posture may Affect more than just your Health

Posture Plays A Role in How
Someone Acts

A study at Kellogg School of Management showed that posture plays a role in how someone acts. In this case, if someone acts more in charge or has more “power.”

There is no question posture has a psychological benefit besides a physical health benefit. We know that good posture means good spinal alignment. If we have this, then we have a body that works and functions normally. We have no pressure on nerves and joints have less stress.

Now, think about it- you’re feeling sad, down: what happens to your posture? You look down, your head shifts forward and down, your shoulders roll in. This posture is not so good for neck and back alignment, is it? Now you’re feeling happy: you just won a raffle (which never happens, you never win anything). You’re happy, you feel really good. Look at your posture now, it’s good: your head is up, you are smiling, you feel strong!

This is exactly what I’m talking about. We know our mind plays a big role in our physical health, just think about someone who is often stressed out or depressed, I can guarantee they start to have health problems.

By improving your posture you can improve your health mentally and physically. Start by correcting your neck posture and everything else will start to fall into place.

Picture Source: Posture of Success

Additional Reading Resources:

• Neck Posture
• Remedy for A Stiff Neck
• Improve Posture with the Posture Corrector
• Why Posture is the Window to your health
• Choose the right neck pillow for better sleep and better posture

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Piriformis Syndrome and Lower Back Pain or Sciatica

Piriformis syndrome is basically deep pain in the buttocks region and often creates sciatic pain. The piriformis muscle has attachments to the sacrum and sacrotuborous ligament to the head of the femur.

The sciatic nerve travels between the two separate heads of the piriformis muscle. This is why piriformis strain or irritation is often associated with sciatica.

Muscle massage and chiropractic adjustments often relieve muscle tension allowing inflammation to dissipate and pressure on nerves to release. Your chiropractor may often give you stretches for your piriformis muscle to help loosen tension as well.

Any strain or pressure in the sacral or pelvic region will often throw off lumbar spinal alignment, hence it causes back pain. So, relaxing the piriformis may help relieve buttocks pain, but also sciatic pain and lower back pain.



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• Lower Back Pain Relief
  
• Positioning Products for Relief of Lower Back Pain and Neck Pain
  
  
• No More Low back Pain: Simple Tips to Keep a healthy back
  
• Solution for Low Back Pain
  

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Yoga can Help you Sleep Better

There may be many causes for someone’s lack of sleep. One major issue can be stress and yoga can help relax you. Here are some yoga poses I feel can help someone calm their nerves and get more relaxing, better sleep:

• Forward Bends- standing and seated: Sit or stand and extend arms and head down toward floor.
• Child’s Pose: Similar to a cat stretch with your forehead touching the floor or surface you are on.
• Nighttime Goddess Stretch: Lying supine with your arms and legs out. Legs in a diamond shape; bottoms of feet together.
• Inverted Poses: Lie supine with buttocks close to wall and your legs raised up against the wall.

It is suggested that those poses can be the most helpful for sleep, but really any short yoga routine before bed may help substantially. Focus on deep, slow breathing and don’t try to force any poses or uncomfortable positions.

Additional Reading Resources

• Having Solid Core Muscles can have Multiple Health Benefits
• Sleep Like A baby and Wake Up Feeling Refreshed
• Choose the Right Neck Pillow For Comfort and Support
• Sleep Deprivation and How it Affects More than your Mind
• The Queen of Neck Pillows- Expert Advice on Getting a Good Nights Sleep with the right Pillow

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Wishing Yourself a Good Night's Sleep

Arc4life's Tips for your Best Night’s Sleep 


Arc4life's Top Tips for Better Sleep



1. Spinal Alignment- the top thing we recommend is a neck pillow to keep your natural alignment. Not only will this improve your night’s sleep, but it will improve your neck posture and neck alignment when you are awake.
2. Make it dark. Studies have shown we get our proper REM sleep when we sleep in complete darkness. So, if the street lights shine in or all your electronics glow in the dark, get curtains and move the gadgets.
3. Put away your electronics. To continue on from the 2nd tip- Get rid of electronics in the bedroom. Not only do they often emit light, but studies are showing the electromagnetic waves or currents they give off can be harmful to your health.
4. Reduce Noise- if your partner keeps you up because of their snoring get them the traction pillow. If you have to, get earplugs. Mainly, I find lately too many of us have a TV going that we fall asleep to. This is not a great idea. The TV room is for TV, the bedroom is for sleeping.
5. Diet and exercise- do not eat or exercise too close to bed, or you will not sleep well. Preferably, you want to have down time or time to relax before bed, this calms your nerves allowing you to sleep and sleep better.
6. Make sure you are breathing well. You should be breathing in and out comfortably. If your partner notices your breathes are very shallow try to inhale, hold for a few seconds, and release. Do 10 reps before bed to get your breathing deeper before you fall asleep.

Additional Reading Resources

• Choosing the Best Neck Pillow Possible
• Sleep Like a Baby and Wake Up Feeling Refreshed
• More Help wwith sleeping through the night
• Which sleep position is best for you
• The Cervical traction neck pillow can help reduce snoring

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The New Pillo-Pedic At the Neck Pain Relief Shop

On our sister website, The Neck Pain Relief Shop, we have recently added new neck pillows to our family of pillows: The Foot Levelers Pillo- Pedic Neck Pillows. These neck pillows can help you hold chiropractic adjustments longer. The gentle neck traction provided by these neck pillows while you sleep helps to correct neck alignment and provide excellent suppprt during sleep. These pillows are composed of durable non allergenic polyurethane foam and polyester fiber. The flat shape of the Pillo Pedic Pillows is great for sleeping on your side and on your back. The Pillo-Pedic pillows are great for patients who suffer from:

• Tension headaches
• Arthritis and degeneration in the cervical spine
• Neck Pain
• Shoulder Pain
• Whiplash type accidents

Check out the new pillo-pedic pillows at the Neck Pain Relief Shop !


Additional Reading resources

• Foot Levelers Pillo-Pedic Pillows
• Choose the Right Neck Pillow for Sleeping
• Understanding Your Neck Posture
• The Right Neck Pillow for A Herniated Disc
• Headache Remedies

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