massage techniques neck and shoulders

For the last couple of days my head, neck, and shoulders have been hurting and feeling wierd. I have had someone rub it and they said they can feel knots like in the muscle. I do alot of lifting at work and I dont know what that can cause. Has anyone ever had knots in their muscles and how can it make you feel? Please if anyone can help let me know. Thank you all once again.

My 34 yr old husband has recently (in the last month) started having extreme headaches. He says that the are constant, sharp, pains. The location is from his shoulders up through his neck, continuing to the back of his head (about ear level) and goes around the sides. There's no pain in the top or front of his head. Our Dr. at first said sinus infection and gave 2 rounds of antibiotics. Then he said it was pre-hypertension with his blood pressure running about 135/90 and put him on b.p.

How can I relieve some of the knots and pain from my upper shoulders and neck naturally? This has been going on for 3+ weeks now. I have tried to "stretch" it out but that's not working. HELP!

The runny nose was particularly true of my horse. He showed tension between his ears and down his neck through the shoulders. I learned to massage him before riding to get him relaxed and feeling good first. Within 5 minutes, his nose would practically be on his knees, with his lips loosely dangling and and a steady light stream running from his nostrils.

ve been unconciously clenching my jaw causing me more head discomfort, and my shoulders and back muscles are constantly tight. I have to physically tell myself to relax my shoulders and stop clenching my jaw. Its making me miserable, the constant head pain and muscle tightness. If I take a xanax the symptoms get significantly better but I don't want to take them regularly to stop the symptoms. Any advice on how to control this?

Try Synesodyne toothpaste, that will stop the pain in your teeth. As far as the neck, head and specifically shoulders go to a Massage therapist and tell them to work firmly on your back, shoulders neck and head. Be sure to drink a lot of water after the massage. But the next day, sometimes almost immediately, you will feel relief. I'm surprised the dentist didn't suggest a nightguard or synesodyne toothpaste.

Even though you may think your head is level, the whole structure (neck and head) are slumped forward, make sure the neck and shoulders are pulled back and in line with each other. Look in the mirror.

My hubby rubs my neck and shoulders too and it never makes me feel ill. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but after I read that about others doing the same it made me wonder. Anyways just wanted to share it with you all and see if you had any ideas or opinions on this. I thought it kinda interesting.

He can apply a heat pack to the area. You can gently massage his back, shoulders and neck to relieve any muscle spasms. He can use paracetamol for pain relief. If he does use or the doctor prescribes anti-inflammatory medicines like Ibuprofen, ensure that these are taken after food, - sometimes the doctor may prescribe a stomach remedy like Omeprazole to protect the stomach. Anti-inflammatory medications do not suit everyone and can also cause stomach bleeding.

McB is right. Goodness knows, all kinds of problems can cause neck, shoulder and back pain and the number one reason, believe it or not; as I am told by my doctor, is poor posture. That is in the absence of any structual problems in those areas, like degenerative changes caused by arthritis, disks problems, overuse of those muscles or even muscle tension.

I wanted to know if back and neck strain can cause headaches? I recently started playing fastball again and I can barely move my right arm and my neck, shoulders and back are so sore, but I've also been having chronic headaches for about a week now. Could this be due to the soreness or muscle strain?

My arms, shoulders and neck always hurt.

Found out my neck and spine are out of alignment and my muscles in my shoulders and neck are inflamed putting pressure on my ocipital nerve causing the pain. I currently go twice a week for alignments and massage and use an icepack on my neck shoulders several times a day for 20 minute increments. These things are helping tremendously, so well that I am hoping continuing these therapies after baby comes will keep me from needing meds at all.

Are they safe? I am 22 wks and my shoulders and neck are killing me from my heavy breasts! So i was thinking about getting a prenatal massage, but my massage place has this waiver with all these scary things on it about side effects from prenatal massage. Has anyone gotten one, how likely are these negatives symptoms??

hours ago I accidently move my head backwards and twist my neck for few seconds because I was practicing doing a dance routine, And now I have bad headaches mostly from the back my head and my upper neck and upper back would hurt time to time. Also I would have this feeling in my throat of bubble in there not moving unless I burp but it keep coming up again.

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Tylenol is safe to take, but the less you do the safer. My fiance rubbed my neck and shoulders every night and that helped a lot too. Other than that, just try and take it as easy as possible. Congrats on the pregnancy and best of luck for you and your little one!

I'm 13 weeks and for the past week I have had a headache every single day but I'll take a nap and it'll go away slightly I've also been really dizzy to and I do have alot of tension in my back and shoulders and neck I have a huge knot in my left shoulder upper back I've tried tylonal heating pad Ice packs nothing will help. Anyone else have this?

I get massage therapy once a week along with physical therapy. the massage helps the shoulders/neck area so much. they dont do much around my neck and back of head. They also to alot of the bones in the skull manipulation. helps the CSF flow and making things even. I would say do the massage, just request they only stick to the shoulders, back area, nothing too close to the neck.

thank you for replying so quickly, Yes the knot is hard,. when I touch it, it makes my shoulders feel heavy and sends a bit of pain down my neck. but I could just be touching it too much, I often try to massage the area but there are times it isn't painful to press, b it seems to have gotten a bit bigger though.

Then she had me seated in the massage chair. she started massaging my neck and shoulders. Now mind you, I have NEVER had a massage before! Then, unexpectedly, I started crying. No, I am not an overly emotional person! I told her to excuse my response and she told me to let out all that I was feeling. It was fine. She was so kind and gentle and I felt completely at ease, even though it was the first time I met her. Afterwards, we talked about all this.

Also, since Chiari Malformation was mentioned by the doc, DO NOT rub the back of your neck! I had mentioned that before for this very reason. Just the tops of your shoulders, please. And I ditto Londres' advice on getting a second opinion, plus he can then educate you on Chiari, so you will understand what this means, various treatments, and so forth.

Short of that, you can do it yourself. Massage your own neck, behind your ear, top of your head. You can get a tennis ball and lay down on ground and roll on it with back of neck, back of skull. Shoulders as well as this is often where tightness happens. Otherwise, you will need to look into migraines such as cluster migraines. Let us know how you are doing!

t grown, but I have since noticed that when I press on the muscles to either side of the lump, those muscles are unbelievably tense, and that tension is contributing to chronic pain in the muscles on the right side of my neck and shoulders. In addition, I often have numbness in the first three fingers of my right hand, soreness in my right forearm and bicep, and soreness in my right hip. These may all be unrelated, but my left side is not bothered by the same type of pain.

I have no advice to offer.. but your post definitely caught my eye! Prior to my chiari diagnosis last March... my PCP sent me to an oral surgeon for my jaw pain. The oral surg said i had TMJ. He sent me to the chiropractor as well. The chiri told me the EXACT same thing! My atlas is out of alginment and that woudl be causing me all sorts of muscle issues and pain in my jaw, face, neck, shoulders, etc. He wanted to 'pop' my C1 & C2 back into alignment.

i slid on ice at 15mph and hit a tree and got out of the car and didnt feel any pain till aprox Aug 2008. since then i have seen a few drs but never a back specialist. i have had XRays and MRIs and Blood Work done on my back and all the drs can see is muscle damage. i am more tired then not, have shooting pain from my shoulders down threw my back and into the siatic nerve threw my right leg. most of the pain is on the right side of my spine.

I have extreme headaches on the left side of my head along with extreme discomfort and pain in the skull, jaw, neck, shoulders. The left side of my shoulder, neck, face, and even cranium is swollen and has been getting more and more swollen over the years. I do not know if it's a domino effect from the bottom (feet, lower back, or shoulder) to the top (jaw and skull) or from the top to the bottom, or a bunch of separate problems.

I found a large lump on my dggs ribs today, sure it was not there before as I give her a massage around her shoulders and neck every night..

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