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Who really knows where neck pain comes from. It just pops up from stress, a bad night’s sleep, a strain, who knows.

However, when it does pop up, too many people think it has to do with spine alignment and not about the muscles or tightness.

It could be a problem with the spine or vertebra, but it could also be that the muscles in the neck are tight or constricted, or have landmine knots in them called trigger points.

In fact, the cause of most neck pain are muscle imbalances, tight muscles, and trigger points, with the most important first step to get rid of it for good being highly skilled neuromuscular massage therapy, which details and releases the muscle spasms and trigger points like no other technique.

Adults regularly report having neck pain and most likely everyone has experienced it. Most people come for neuromuscular massage with the complaint of chronic neck pain.

Massage for Neck Pain

1. Massage around the spine can be pain relieving and soothing. These muscles may alleviate tension within the neck. Therefore, any amount of specific, detailed neuromuscular massage and relaxation for neck painmay be beneficial.

2. Neuromuscular massage is the most scientific, evidenced based massage, and most valid approach of massaging the neck area that is sore, distressed, or in pain. Treating the body holistically as a unit is crucial, as different areas of the body are connected to others, so overall attention to the spine in general is important.

3. Massage for neck pain is not just for pain management, but it can also be preventative. With regular neuromuscular massage, pain after a trauma or accident may be reduced. This emphasis on pre-trauma health is increasingly based on research and evidence.

4. Massage scheduled regularly will more significantly benefit neck pain.

Besides tight muscles and trigger points, the cause of neck pain can often be a mystery, but sometimes neck pain is transient. Preventive, ongoing massage is key. For more information, contact Massage Revolution.

What Causes Lower Back Pain?

Many people with low back pain are afraid that their pain is related to structural problems and spinal fragility. This is not usually the case.

Lower back pain can be caused by many factors, including muscle imbalances, trigger points, lack of physical activity, injury, poor posture, obesity, stress, or even just picking up something incorrectly.

Fortunately, there are more and more studies that suggest that highly skilled, advanced deep tissue and neuromuscular massage therapy can help significantly reduce inflammation and provide relief from chronic back pain.

In fact, a study on massage for back pain showed that both Swedish massage and deep tissue massage are equally effective at improving lower back pain and painful symptoms.

Relaxation and structural massage provide healing benefits.

How Massage for Back Pain Helps

If you are one of the many who suffers from lower back pain, below are some ways that regular massage for back pain can bring serious relief:

1. Increased blood flow. Increased blood flow is a known proponent of muscle recovery and studies confirm that massage therapy helps improve general blood flow and reduces soreness.

2. Decreased tension. While muscle tension is needed by the body to maintain body posture and general movements, too much tension causes pain and muscle restriction. Massage therapy is proven to decrease muscle tension.

3. Increased endorphins. Endorphins are the feel good chemicals in the brain. Massage tactics generate these endorphins, which are known to reduce pain and produce a sense of euphoria.

4. Heat application. Superficial heat during massage is also recommended for lower back pain. Warm stone massages, hot towels, and heat packs are ideal add-ons for massage related to lower back pain.

The Takeaway

Research shows that massage therapy is a clinically proven method to reduce symptoms of widespread and debilitating lower back pain.

If you experience lower back pain, contact Massage Revolution’s Back and Relief Center.

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common and well-known nerve entrapment condition, often called neuropathy, affecting and causing symptoms in your entire shoulder girdle, arms, hands, and fingers. It’s basically a pinched nerve in your extremities somewhere between your neck and hand. Often people think that carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) affects only the all day prolonged computer or desk worker yet that’s far from reality.

Though Carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms can affect anyone, does it surprise you that it’s quite common in some of the most active people, such as athletes? Let’s look a little closer at the reasons for why carpal tunnel symptoms are so prevalent in even who we consider to be the most elite fit athletes…

Have you noticed how quite a few sports, such as baseball, cycling, tennis, and golf, require you to grip tightly for long intervals without any rest? This greatly fatigues the neck, shoulder, and forearm muscles, tendons, ligaments over time, stressing the joints, and creating muscle imbalances. These muscle imbalances create rounded shoulders and forward head posture, often put press on nerves as well as create pain landmine knots called “trigger points.” Ultimately, you’re left with pain and numbness, even tingling in your hands, arms, fingers. Additionally, any type of colliding accident in sports jamming the wrist can cause carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms. The key is knowing the best carpal tunnel syndrome treatment and prevention.

In addition to therapies such as manual therapy, soft tissue therapy, massage, neuromuscular therapy, to the neck, shoulder and arm muscles along the course of the median nerve (the elbow, shoulder, neck, for example), is quite effective to carpal tunnel syndrome prevention and to provide lasting relief to CTS symptoms. Treating CTS symptoms often includes non-surgical methods such as wearing a wrist splint primarily at night and using anti-inflammatories such as ginger, turmeric, and bioflavonoids.

There’s often many modifications athletes are able to make to their sport to avoid placing stress on their wrist. They can also work with other healthcare providers to manage conditions like diabetes, hypothyroid, or certain types of arthritis that can cause or contribute to CTS symptoms.

Lastly, training the CTS sufferer in specific postural exercises they can do throughout their daily activities to improve muscle balance, is often the most effective treatment and carpal tunnel syndrome preventative solution.

Early prevention is most important for CTS as it’s often at the root cause a postural distortion and muscle imbalance issue, leading to pressure on nerves and pain causing trigger points. The more you focus on muscle balance and good posture, the more you prevent the symptoms from occurring.

One of the more common coincidences in modern medicine: people who sit a lot have low back pain. The number of biomechanical reasons for this are several, but one of the most common is surprisingly simple: there’s a trigger point in your gluteus maximus muscle that is caused by sitting in a typical office chair, and it refers pain directly to the area just above your tailbone. One case study showed a young woman who came in complaining of low back pain after suffering a minor injury; two visits to a neuromuscular therapist who treated her right gluteus maximus later, she was back to work “assuming all duties without pain.” If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 491

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One of the most common complaints in America today is the ‘tension headache,’ a pain at the base of the skull that will often be accompanied by pain running up behind the ear, pain at or just in front of the temple, or more rarely in the ridge above one eye. The name ‘tension’ headache implies one may be shouldering too heavy of a burden…and in fact, that metaphor may be more literal than anyone thinks. A study published in the journal Headache showed that people with myofascial trigger points in the trapezius muscle had tension headaches that were longer and more painful than those without. By no coincidence, all of the regions mentioned above are areas where shoulder pain is known to refer — so the next time the base of your skull is pounding and no amount of NSAIDs or meditation will help, call a trigger point therapist and ask them to take your shoulder off the grindstone. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

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When Amazon announces that they’re developing a new tablet specifically geared toward gamers, you know tablets have become genuinely mainstream — but they’re not without their issues. It’s all-too-common to see someone hanging their head forward, looking down at their latest level in Candy Crush, and then look up…and wince. That’s because the levator scapulae — the muscles that hold up your head — can get quite irate when you abuse them by looking down for long periods of time. One study of twenty-two young phone-prone women found that “constant trigger points and creptitation (popping/cracking of the shoulder)” were common to their complaints — so if you can’t afford to put your tablet or phone down, look into addressing the trigger points directly. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 491

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The levator scapulae muscle is the most common cause of “stiff neck” complaints, with limited and painful movement. In a clinical case study of active trigger points, the levator scapulae muscle was the most commonly involved neck/shoulder girdle muscle. In another study of 200 normal young adults, 20% of subjects were found to have trigger points in their levator scapulae muscles. Neuromuscular Therapists relieve these trigger points as well as provide stretching for more permanent result. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 491

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach:The #1 Reason For Headache Pain from Back of Head to Eyes

Headaches from the back of the head, to the forehead and eyes, that feel like the whole side of the heads hurts, almost like a migraine, is common. The suboccipital muscles are the deepest muscles at the base of the skull and the major muscular source of this head pain. In this case study of 160 female office workers, 63% of the 72 subjects with disturbing neck symptoms had suboccipital tenderness to palpation, very likely from trigger points. These muscles often develop trigger points from forward-head posture, prolonged looking upwards, and emotional tensions. Neuromuscular Therapist specialists are able to release trigger points in the suboccipital muscles quite effectively. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 472

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Redondo Beach: Pain Reaching Behind Your Back or Laying On Your Side?

Trigger points in the infraspinatus, a small muscle on your shoulder blade, are often the hidden cause for weak, stiff shoulders and arms that tire easily. These trigger points lock up the muscle and make it difficult to reach behind your back, fasten a brassiere, or lay on your side without pain. Neuromuscular Trigger Point Specialist easily releases trigger points in your infraspinatus muscle, to relieve pain and greatly improve your range of motion. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 553

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Hermosa Beach: Does Your Shoulder Click, Grind, or Hurt?

Trigger points in your rotator cuff and shoulder muscles, such as your supraspinatus, subscapularis, and infraspinatus muscles, are often the source of the clicks, grinding, and pain you feel in your shoulder joint. Unresolved trigger points in your shoulder predispose it to tearing, limited range of motion, and injury. Studies show Neuromuscular Trigger Point Therapy helps end shoulder pain, clicking, or grinding, and helps when you’re no longer able to do simple household chores, scratch your back, comb hair, or reach upwards. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today, we service Hermosa Beach and the entire South Bay!

Travell and Simons, 1999

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in South Bay: High Prevalence of Back Pain in High School Sports.

Low back pain is a surprisingly common complaint among young athletes. A study from Finland analyzed 464 teenage athletes from a variety of sports and found that 54.9% experienced back pain during the previous year but only about a quarter sought treatment. Myofascial trigger points always contribute a major portion of back pain, often the root cause of many neuromuscular dysfunctions. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today! We service the entire South Bay!

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Whiplash May Cause Headaches and Neck Pain in 1 Out of Every 6 Elderly Patients.

Could chronic neck pain and headaches in elderly patients be related to a whiplash injury earlier in life? Comprehensive examinations on 134 elderly patients with chronic neck pain and/or headaches determined that damage to the alar ligament in the neck, likely from a previous whiplash injury, was the most likely explanation for long-term neck pain and/or headaches in 15.7% of study participants. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Journal of Central South University Medical Sciences, January 2015

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Category: Blog

What Causes Lower Back Pain?

How Massage for Back Pain Helps

The Takeaway

Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Redondo Beach: Pain Reaching Behind Your Back or Laying On Your Side?

Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Hermosa Beach: Does Your Shoulder Click, Grind, or Hurt?

Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in South Bay: High Prevalence of Back Pain in High School Sports.

Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Whiplash May Cause Headaches and Neck Pain in 1 Out of Every 6 Elderly Patients.

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