Is Your Job the Cause of Your Headaches?
Being a Bellevue chiropractor, and after seeing thousands of patients over the years, I have begun to see certain patterns in certain groups of patients. For instance, woman who wear high heels for many years have a VERY high likely hood they will have low back pain. Another one is people who have computer jobs all have very similar neck and back problems, and their necks all have a certain look to them. This has become so common in the city that I practice, Bellevue WA, because of the many computer jobs, that I have coined the term “Bellevue Neck”.
The reason for these similarities are very simple. Sitting at a computer puts your body in very poor postures. Now I have a saying that all of my patients know, and its “where you keep your body the most, is where its going to stay”. If you keep your body in a poor posture (ie sitting at the computer) its going to get stuck there.
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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