Seattle Chiropractor, Dr Jas Walia Helps With Neck Pain

Seattle Chiropractor, Dr Jas Walia, helps people with neck pain.

Do you wake up with a stiff and sore neck in the morning? Do you have difficulty turning your head from side to side? Do you experience sharp pinching or shooting pains when you turn your head? You are not alone! Millions of people are affected by neck pain daily. Neck pain is usually caused by sports injuries, car accidents, sudden movements, over use, and sleeping in awkward positions. Other causes of neck pain include arthritis, old injuries, and spinal or emotional stress.

Sudden movements such as sneezing, coughing, and whiplash can cause your neck to over stretch, which tears the muscles or ligaments that hold the joints in place. These movements can cause inflammation and swelling in your neck causing your vertebrae to move and irritate the nerves. When these nerves are irritated you can experience sharp shooting pains, headaches, dizziness, ringing in the ears, etc. While pain killers have the ability mask the pain, it is only temporary.

When your spinal muscles have been damaged or injured, the resultant muscle imbalance can prevent the vertebrae from being properly aligned causing your spine to heal crooked. This can cause you to lose your range of motion or function. It is much like car tires being misaligned causing the joints to wear quickly.

This gradual process is known as degeneration or arthritis. It happens so slowly that most people do not know they have it until it has reached an advanced stage. The slower a disease takes to progress (cancer, hearing loss, arthritis, etc.), with less initial pain, the more likely the problem will go undiagnosed until it is too late.

Chiropractic treats these causes of pain. Doctors of chiropractic, like Seattle Chiropractor, Dr Jas Walia, carefully exam the neck, while looking for specific things like muscle imbalance, loss of motion, spasm, swelling, pinched nerves, and vertebrae that are out of position. Chiropractic manipulations break up adhesions that prevent the spine from functioning properly. Chiropractors also reposition vertebrae to relieve pressure from the nerves, which also relieve pain and spasms. While doing this, they monitor your progress to make sure you are healing properly.

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