Neck pain

 Hi, 

Today I'm going to talk about the neck pain is caused by soft tissue injury.

Neck pain has an annual prevalence rate exceeding 30% among adults in the US; nearly 50% of individuals will continue to experience some degree of chronic neck pain or frequent occurrences. Among adults, 20% to 70% will experience neck pain that interferes with their daily activities during their lifetime.

Today, many people even children are working with computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone for long hours in the same posture. This is stress strain can injure the soft tissue. 

Here is a good case.

The patient works with laptop and smartphone for years in the poor posture. The patient is a female, 40 yrs. She has had neck pain all the time but recently the pain was worse. Her complaint was neck pain being worse when bending her neck forward, especially her left side, and the right side of the neck pain going down to her shoulder not arm, the pain was sharp but no tingling, numbness. 

The blue mark in the picture is an adhesive scar on Semispinalis capitis muscle.

The blue mark in the picture is an adhesive scar on Semispinalis capitis muscle

First visit, I started observing her neck. Her cervical spine was kyphosis, which means cervical spine curves outward, because she worked with laptop in the bending her neck posture for long hours every days. And I palpated her neck gently. And I discovered a adhesive scar on the left side of Semispinalis capitis muscle, the scar direction was perpendicularly to the cervical spine C4. And continually, I observed the right side of her neck, I found a adhesive scar on the right side of the same muscle, Semispinalis capitis muscle, but this scar was horizontally to the cervical spine between C2-C3. And I discovered an another adhesive scar on the ligamentum nuchae which running over the cervical spines from C1 to C7. All theses scars were very clear and hearing click sound loudly when palpating, but need to focus on finding because this area is small. 

I started treatment to separate the adhesive scar by hands from healthy soft tissue.

After 10 sessions, the patient felt much better. No more pain when she bends her neck forward. She continues to come for treatment and prevention injury.