Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Bellevue Neck

By Dr. Michael Weir


Have you ever noticed that certain people with certain jobs all have similar personality's for the most part? Like accounts, computer programmers, and so on. The same holds true for the way that certain jobs affect the spine. Computer jobs for instance create certain poor postures in the neck. I see this every day in my office as a Bellevue chiropractor! In fact it has become so common here in Bellevue WA, that I have named this type of neck a "Bellevue Neck".

So why do these people with computer jobs all have similar looking necks? Sitting at a computer causes the head and neck to tip forward, and then jut forward. If you keep the head and neck in this posture for long enough it will get stuck there. This is a bad thing.

In neurology we call this process plasticity. Think of your spine like a piece of plastic, bend it too far and it will get stuck there. On the positive side of things, you can also bend things back to their normal position with the right treatments.

When I see postures of the neck where is jutting out in front of the body or where the shoulders are rolled forward, I diagnose this as "Bellevue Neck". What this neck straightening does is put tension on the spinal cord, and stress on the whole body.

Patients with "Bellevue Neck" can have tmj, headaches, neck pain, middle back pain and other pains. What a Bellevue Chiropractor can do for you is reverse the damage of Bellevue neck and take that pressure off of your body!




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