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Move As If You Never Experienced Pain Is Stress Causing Your Neck Pain?
Causes of Stress-Related Neck Pain Whilestressalonecan triggerneckpain,a few factorscanmake itworse.Office environments tend to create neck pain problems — as they confine people to chairs,badpostureand littlemobility.Drivingoften,too,canmakeyourchances of stress-related neck pain higher. TheU.S.NationalLibraryofMedicinesuggestscontactingaprofessional ifyou’re experiencing neck pain. Even if it’s caused by stress, untreated neck pain might later reveal muscle spasms, arthritis, bulging discs or even narrowed spinal nerve openings.
Does your neck hurt? You might be suffering from stress-related pain — also calleda tensionheadache.Duringanxiety,muscles tenseup.Asmuscle tension tightens,theback,shouldersandneckareaffected.Themorepressuretheycause, themorediscomfortyouget.Let’stakeacloser lookatstress-relatedneckpain. Is My Neck Pain Caused by Stress? Pain worsened by keeping your head in one place — like when you’re driving, or using a computer — is neck pain. While neck pain has a slew of symptoms, its major symptoms, reported by HealthActions Physical Therapy, are: • Muscle tightness and spasms • Headache • Decreased ability to move the head Stress-induced neck pain isn’t rare. It also isn’t psychological. Many experts thinkstress-inducedneckpain iscausedbyphysical factors— low,butconstant, trapezius muscle activity. If your neck pain starts at the base of your shoulders, traveling upward, it may be stress related.
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