Neck/Upper back (trapezius) pain

[PeoplesChamp]

I have been having bad neck, and upper back paint and stiffness around the traps and neck muscles and also the scapula area.

I had no problem a few weeks ago. I stopped lifting weights, but was still doing pullups, pushups, etc a lot and lots more cardio to cut some weight. I am not sure if the muscles got weaker from not doing heavy back lifts like dumbell rows and t-bar rows. I thought pullups was still working the back.

I didn't ever feel any discomfort when working out those weeks w/o weights. However, I went to get my flu shot and then worked out outside, just cardio, pullups, pushups, dips, lunges, squats, and jump roping.

It just pissing me the **** off that how I have ended up with neck and back pain all of a sudden. I am recovering from a groin injury I sustained this summer, and this makes it even worse for now I have this annoying stiffness and pain. I went to get massage and it helped for a little bit and to a chiropractor, but the pain and tightness is back.

[lauhpurush]

Most traditional treatments fail (like a massage)because they simply address the symptoms and fail to address the cause of the condition. Your pain is a physical problem and it requires a physical solution.

approach a physiotherapist who can offer spinal mobilizations, hot packs, ultrasound, electrical stimulation, cervical traction, and therapeutic exercises to permanently heal that upper back/neck pain..

I can understand its very baffling but continuing with it or not treating it is just gonna make it worse...

good luck!

[PeoplesChamp]

thanks....Im heading to go see a phy therp and/or doc tommorow

[mc-]

Originally Posted by lauhpurush

Most traditional treatments fail (like a massage)because they simply address the symptoms and fail to address the cause of the condition. Your pain is a physical problem and it requires a physical solution.

approach a physiotherapist who can offer spinal mobilizations, hot packs, ultrasound, electrical stimulation, cervical traction, and therapeutic exercises to permanently heal that upper back/neck pain..

I can understand its very baffling but continuing with it or not treating it is just gonna make it worse...

good luck!

It's a really good point about treatments can fail - but there's nothing really different about massage and electrical stimulation and utrasound.

These are all manual therapy techniques that have a high recitivism rate - that is, we feel great for about 45 mins after we get off the table, and then we're pretty much back to where we were and are going for another treatment, and another, and another.

Alternative approaches that look at the nervous system and remapping patterns more directly invite the PERSON to move themselves, thereby triggering off way more signals to the nervous system and mapping down new learned patterns.

So if the physio treatment works, that's awesome. In acute pain that can be the perfect trigger to let go of whatever the thing causing the acute response is. So if you go see the physio, and it works, great.

Otherwise, i'd make other self-movement based suggestions. It's not surprising that the groin/neck connection is going on. The sacrum & cervical spine are closely coupled.

PeoplesChamp, PM me if you find you'd like to explore more self-care to keep you off the table and out of pain.

mc