5 Common Migraine Triggers
Anyone who struggles with migraines understands that the best way to deal with these headaches is to avoid them in the first place. This starts with knowing what can trigger your migraines.
Neck Pain: What To Do When Home Remedies Aren't Enough
Dealing with neck pain is no small thing. If you’re unable to turn your head comfortably, you’re not able to see, hear, or even smell the world around you all that easily. As a result, you experience difficulties with everything from driving your car to figuring out where your kids or pets ran off to.
As if the limitations on your life weren't bad enough, you’re also dealing with no small amount of pain.
About 80% of people have a bout with neck pain at least once in their lives, and many struggle with chronic issues. If you find yourself in this group and you’ve tried home remedies to no avail, you’re in the right place.
Our team here at Complete Neurological Care counts back and neck pain among our areas of expertise, and we’re here to help.
Let’s take a look at what might be behind your neck pain, why home remedies aren’t enough anymore, and what we can do to help.
Behind chronic neck pain
There are many drivers of neck pain, but we’re going to focus on those that are progressive — they worsen over time and it’s been weeks, months, and even years of discomfort.
Some of the more common culprits of progressive and chronic neck pain include:
- Stress
- Bad posture (think tech neck)
- Degenerative disc disease, which can lead to herniated discs
- Cervical spinal stenosis
- Arthritis
- Whiplash
Again, this list isn’t comprehensive, but these conditions represent the lion’s share of cases of neck pain that we see at our practice.
What to do when home remedies fall short
What many of the conditions we outlined above have in common, aside from the neck pain, is that they can often become unresponsive to home remedies.
At first, icing and heating your neck or taking some ibuprofen might have done the trick. And you may have gotten good relief through some quick stretches.
But these days, the pain returns quickly or, worse, doesn’t go away entirely, and you’re frustrated, which is understandable.
This likely means that you’re not targeting the right problem or that your neck condition is progressively getting worse.
Whatever the case, your next best step is to come see us so we can properly diagnose the issue. When you treat neck pain at home, you’re taking a shot in the dark to some extent, since you don’t really know what you’re up against.
Through our comprehensive evaluation, which includes advanced imaging, we can pinpoint the problem to get you on the road to relief.
Many options for tough neck pain
To give you an idea about all that we can do to relieve your neck pain, we want to include a list of treatments that we routinely use to relieve neck pain. They include:
- Interventional injections
- Physical therapy
- Medications like muscle relaxers
- Radiofrequency facet joint ablation
- Neurostimulation
It’s impossible to say here what might work for your neck pain, but we want you to know that there are many solutions that we can try.
If your life has been swallowed up by a literal pain in the neck, please contact one of our offices in Boynton Beach, Boca Raton, or Margate, Florida, to schedule an appointment.
You Might Also Enjoy...
3 Best Practices for Dealing With Sciatica
A condition like sciatica can have a huge impact on your life as you deal with shooting pain in your back and leg. Here are some tips for getting through sciatica and preventing it from striking again.
What We Want You to Know About Anxiety and Your Health
There are many roads to anxiety, and an issue with your health is certainly a big one. The connection between anxiety and your health is very much a two-way street, and we explore this link here.
Act FAST— Signs of a Stroke (and What to Do Next)
Someone has a stroke every 40 seconds in the United States, and prompt intervention can make all the difference. This means you need to recognize the signs, which we review here.
6 Early Signs of Parkinson's Disease
Many people associate Parkinson’s disease with tremors and shaking, but the condition extends well beyond movement disorders. Here, we look at some of the first symptoms that can develop with Parkinson’s.
The Many Faces of Seizures
When many people think of a seizure, they envision someone lying on the ground and convulsing. While this can, indeed, be the case, this scenario is far from the only way a seizure can present itself.