Take control of your neck pain and posture

If you’re taking this course because of neck pain, you are not alone.

Neck pain is the 4th leading cause of disability amongst working adults.

Neck pain is a huge contributor to presenteeism at work, where you’re present, but the pain you are experiencing is taking away some of the mind share that you you should be devoting to your work duties.

I’m Doctor Todd Lloyd at Rincon Chiropractic in San Francisco. In this course, I’m going to bring you through the process of:

• Understanding why you get neck pain.

• Understanding the structures of the joints, muscles, and nerves in your neck.

• What you can do at home or at your office with this knowledge of your neck anatomy.

• When you should do stretches to help your neck, and

• When you should do exercises to stabilize your neck.

  
  

As I work with you, my virtual patients and my virtual students, and I come across new information, I will add to this class and update you on what I am learning, and what is working for other students and my own patients, who I see in person.

Your body is very resilient. As you go through your life, your body is continually repairing DNA, your muscles, your ligaments, your bone structure, your joint surfaces, and everything else. Healing never stops throughout your lifetime, but sometimes things go wrong, where you need a little bit of guidance and outside help from people like me.

My goals for you in this course is to give you the tools to address neck pain and stiffness as you feel it, and to empower you to become self-sufficient. To be autonomous with your self care.

As with any course you may take, this course is not a substitute for your own medical care. If you need to seek outside professional help, then you should do so. While I think this information will be valuable to you, it’s not enough to diagnose you. I can’t personally screen you for red flags or for the proper diagnosis that might change the direction of treatment that you need.

If anything in this course causes pain, then stop it immediately, and seek help from your local chiropractor or other trained professional licensed to diagnose you and render treatment.

Now, let’s get to work healing your neck pain and stiffness!

Don't let neck pain affect you, and your quality of life. Even though you can function in today's society while hiding your neck stiffness or pain, there are things we can do about it.

Neck pain tends to refer either to your head or to your shoulders. In this lesson, we are going to learn where the pain goes and from what part of the neck.

In practice since 2002, Dr. Lloyd joined Rincon Chiropractic in 2015.

Neck pain? Headache? Low back pain? Dr. Lloyd has a special interest in relieving your discomfort, and reinforcing stability and balance in your spine. Recognize your neutral spine, keep that stability with all of your daily activities. It's a learning process, and you'll have to practice it daily. You might even need some help along the way.

That's where Dr. Lloyd and the rest of the Rincon staff come in. Dr. Lloyd has over 1500 hours of postgraduate continuing education in the fields ranging from spinal trauma and rehab to sports injuries and treatment. If your self care at home is not getting you here you need to be, then let us evaluate your function orthopedically and neurologically before we work with you on a care plan.

Outside the office, Dr. Lloyd tries to keep up with the ultra-runners in the hills in Sonoma County.

This is a common neck exercise that you can find in textbooks. It's a pretty universal way to activate the muscles in your neck.

Stuck at a stoplight? Well now's the perfect time to do a quick neck muscle activation. Learn this and try it the next time you're waiting for the green.