Name: Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Address: USA

May 10, 2011

Your poor neck. It has to hold your head up all day long as you go about life in La Grande. The neck is like a golf tee holding up a 10 pound bowling ball. (The head weighs 8 to 12 pounds on average.) Sure the neck has muscles. It is designed quite well. But the neck muscles may be lazy or injured or out of shape. Exercise the neck muscles to get the most out of their design and prevent neck pain or lessen the neck pain you have now. (Consider using our Neck Pain Symptom Analyzer to see what condition(s) may be complicating your neck pain as well.)

Neck Muscles Degenerate

No one thinks about the neck muscles until they don't work the way they are expected to work...well, no one except Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC! We treat neck muscles carefully; Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC does not take neck muscles for granted. If you experience an osteodegenerative spine, the anterior and posterior neck muscles are weaker. (1) If you endure chronic neck and head pain, fatty degeneration of the suboccipital neck muscles appears. (2) Like anywhere else in the body, fatty tissue needs firming. For each new individual neck pain patient in La Grande Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC sets a treatment plan that usually includes neck pain relief exercises. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC knows from spinal research literature that muscles degenerate just as spinal discs degenerate (3,4); fat actually replaces muscle (5). But the good news is that it doesn't take too much exercise to reverse muscle degeneration.

What Works in Treating Neck Pain? Exercise Ranks High.

In patients with non-specific neck pain, exercise improved patients 55% at discharge from care and 44% one year later. Poor outcome was predicted by pain-related medication intake in the short and long term and by catastrophizing in the long term. (6) In a study of office workers with non-specific neck pain, researchers compared exercise types. For prevention of non-specific neck pain, no singular exercise type was identified as being effective. For treating neck pain, strong evidence showed the effectiveness of muscle strengthening and endurance exercises. For reducing neck pain disability, moderate evidence supported the use of muscle endurance exercise. (7) Therapies involving manual therapy and exercise are more useful than other alternative strategies for patients with neck pain. (8)

What Exercise is Good for Neck Muscle Strengthening?

In La Grande Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will work with you to determine the right neck exercise program. Simple neck exercises you can do anywhere require only your own hand-resistance. After your consultation with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC, do the neck pain relief strengthening exercises consistently and correctly to notice a difference.

For the neck pain patient who likes to work with equipment, simple headband resistance exercises are reported to increase neck muscle strength by 110%. (9)

In La Grande Discuss Neck Pain Relieving Exercise with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC

Whatever the neck exercise program, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will show you how to exercise properly and check your progress toward improved neck muscle strength and neck muscle endurance. Be sure to discuss the neck pain exercises with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC first. Researchers wrote that too vigorous an exercise may intensify rather than help low back pain patients.(10) That may be valid for neck pain patients as well, so talk with us at your next appointment.

Contact Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC to discuss your neck pain condition and set a neck pain relief exercise program that will benefit you most.

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