Cervical Traction for Herniated Disc Relief
When you’re suffering from a herniated disc in the neck, gravity is one of your biggest enemies. As gravity pushes your head down, your discs are compressed and that presses on structures around the disc such as nerves. This can cause sharp pain, numbness and tingling in the hands, and/or radiating pain from the neck…
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Exercises (TOS)
In this video I explain how bad posture can cause thoracic outlet syndrome. What is thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS)? TOS is a compression of the brachial plexus and/or subclavian artery and vein at the junction of the neck and clavicle area. Thoracic outlet syndrome symptoms can include numbness and tingling in the hands, coldness of…
3 Tips for the Treatment of Torticollis
In this video I talk about spasmodic torticollis aka wry neck and the two main muscles affected. Those muscles are the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius. When either of those two muscles involuntarily contract, they can move the head in several directions. To relieve the spasms at home you must do 3 things:
