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submitted: Aug 18th 2008 | by: RichardA.Convery | Total views: 2 | Word Count: 533 | |

Drug companies make massive profits from sufferers of neck pain and associated headaches, with six of the top ten wealthiest corporations on earth being pharmaceutical companies. A huge slice of these profits made each year are for conditions that are often avoidable and should require no medication. The proportion of prescription and over-the-counter medication for headaches that are directly or indirectly associated with neck and back pain is toward the very top of the drug companies' profitable products list.

Descending vertically from the base of the skull is the cervical spine, and from investigation we soon discover and appreciate why there is such susceptibility to pain and suffering when we consider the spine's phenomenal complexity taken together with that of the muscular system in the same region.

Due to the relatively lesser vertebral mass and thickness as well as and length of the bony protrusions [called processes], that extend from each vertebra, the cervical spine is the most vulnerable to fracture when compared to other spinal regions. Consequently, it is an easy notion to accept why capital punishment over the centuries has mainly targeted the cervical spine.

We each need to put our spine under the right circumstances in order to allow it to respond, and when we do so it possesses an impressive capacity to recover, however the reverse is also painfully true.

By combining the negative effects of 1) chronic muscle fibre shortening, 2) a high incidence of residual muscular fibrosis, 3) nerve, and 4) spinal compression and associated degeneration, stress also can add significantly to the likelihood of sufferers becoming dependent upon medication. When we add, stress, one of the other modern day common occurrences in many cultures, we contribute significantly to the need for medication dependency when an alternative is not known.

When a sufferer contemplates the relative consequences and origins of these four factors, and genuinely investigates an effective and time-efficient strategy to combat and reverse the factors, the dependency upon medication, in its various forms, reduces dramatically. Invariably, these four factors coincide with cervical spine immobility.

An inability to achieve a chin-to-sternum movement [anterior cervical flexion], or any significant raising of the chin [cervical extension], without an associated increase in pain, is also commonplace. This loss of cervical mobility, over time, so often accompanies cervical spinal degeneration, and can often be reversed under a suitable, time-efficient, proven regime. Restoration of elasticity in the muscle fibres involved in the movement and support of the neck and skull, when done on a regular basis, is foundational to the reversal of the 4 factors previously listed. More often than not, mid-to-longer term medication dependent neck pain sufferers mostly experience a reduction of lateral rotation mobility. In other words, their capacity to turn the head more than a minor degree has become impaired, and in order to view objects that are behind them, generally there is a need to rotate the torso rather than the neck.

Typically, a program that requires between five to ten minutes per day, done without the need for specialised equipment and done at appropriate times within the privacy of home or a suitable workstation is all that is required, will achieve encouraging and relieving results generally within the first one to two months.

About the Author

Richard A. Convery is an expert on neck and back pain relief. You can visit his blog at neck and back pain as well as his website at pain; shoulder neck, upper back pain to learn more. Over many years he has been helping many thousands of people to alleviate their pain; shoulder neck, upper back pain and many more.

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