Treating Neck Pain By Myotherapy

To relief neck pain, beside curing by medicines that are available on the market, chiropractic therapy and also by neck pain exercises, there is an other treatment that can cure it, namely treating neck pain by myotherapy.

Neck pain may come from regions near the neck like a jaw, head and shoulders. Not only that, pain in the neck can also spread to other body parts such as upper back, shoulders, and arms. If the nerves are also involved in the symptoms of pain in the neck, you will feel numb, tingling, or weakness in the arm.

Generally, neck pain is caused by calcification of the cervical vertebrae resulting in narrowing of the hole where the nerves exit edge (spinal nerve) contained in the cervical spine. The result, complaint of pain in the neck sometimes spreads to the shoulders or arms.

You are temporarily able to resolve it by taking the pain reliever drugs that are available in the market. But, in fact it doesn’t resolve the source of pain causes. However, it only eliminates the pain. And, when the effects of the drug have gone, the pain will arise again.

For that, why do not you try myotherapy treatment? Myotherapy is a method in treating neck pain by simply pressing the trigger point pain in the body so that it directly targets the source of pain. For example, muscle tension and pain in the neck that can spread to the head. By myotherapy, nodes in the neck muscles will be pressured to reduce his pain.

Treating neck pain by myotherapy was developed by an outstanding physical therapist Bonnie Prudden in 1976. This treatment is actually similar to acupressure. The difference, myotherapy is based on manipulation of muscles, while acupressure is based on the nerves and energy meridian.

In myotherapy, to reduce pain at the point of pain, muscle is pressed for several seconds with your fingers and elbows. Generally, pain points arise from injury, stress and tension in muscles. Sometimes the pain is hiding inside the body until it is emerged as triggered by either physical or psychological stress.

By following a few sessions of myotherapy, pain point will be lost. Even so, there is a good idea to take precautions by doing stretching exercises and avoid stress.

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