Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches: Self-Treatment for healing Neck pain and headaches due to Bulging Disks, Degenerative Disks, and other diagnoses. - Softcover

Olderman MSPT, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982193718 ISBN 13: 9780982193716

Publisher: Boone Publishing, LLC, 2009

Synopsis

You've tried everything. The pain keeps coming back.

Massage, chiropractic adjustments, pain medication, physical therapy—maybe you've even considered surgery. But your neck pain and headaches persist. Or they go away for a while, then return when you least expect it.

Here's what no one has told you: Most chronic neck pain and headaches aren't caused by damaged discs or "bad posture" alone. They're caused by dysfunctional shoulder blade mechanics that relentlessly pull on your neck—creating forces so subtle you don't even know they're happening.

In Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches, award-winning orthopedic physical therapist Rick Olderman reveals why traditional treatments fail—and shows you exactly how to identify and correct the shoulder blade problems creating your pain.

This book is for you if you have:

• Chronic neck pain or tension headaches
• Bulging or degenerative discs in your neck
• Pain between your shoulder blade and neck (levator scapula area)
• Forward head posture
• Neck pain that worsens at a desk or computer
• Headaches triggered by stress or long work hours
• One shoulder that sits lower than the other

What you'll discover:

• Why your shoulder blade position is the hidden culprit behind most neck pain and headaches
• The 5 shoulder blade "landmarks" that determine whether you'll have neck pain
• How a depressed (low-sitting) shoulder creates a 15-20 pound pendulum hanging from your neck
• Why the levator scapula muscle—not your neck—is usually where your pain originates
• Simple tests to identify YOUR specific shoulder blade dysfunction
• How forward head posture shortens muscles at the base of your skull, triggering headaches

🎥 Bonus: Every exercise comes with video demonstrations. Enter the code inside at www.rickolderman.com and follow along with Rick step-by-step.

Why does everyone give you the same advice?

Stretch your neck. Strengthen your upper back. Get a massage. Fix your ergonomics. Maybe helpful short-term—but they don't work for chronic pain because they treat symptoms, not the root cause.

Your neck pain and headaches follow a pattern created by how your shoulder blades rest and move. Every arm movement reinforces the dysfunction. Fix the shoulder blade mechanics, and the neck can finally heal. Keep treating the neck alone, and nothing changes.

Real stories from real clients:

Read about Debbie's 15-year struggle with neck pain and migraines after two car accidents—completely resolved by correcting her depressed shoulder blade, not by treating her neck. Follow Helen's journey from chronic headaches and degenerative disc disease to pain-free function by restoring proper shoulder blade elevation and rotation.

This approach works even if:

• You've had pain for years or decades
• You have bulging discs, degenerative disc disease, or arthritis in your neck
• Physical therapy provided only temporary relief
• MRIs show "structural damage" but treatments aren't working
• You've been told "it's just aging" or "you'll need to live with it"
• Your pain started after an accident or injury

After 30 years of clinical practice, Rick has helped thousands escape chronic neck pain and headaches. In almost every case, the solution wasn't treating the neck—it was correcting the shoulder blade function that was pulling on the neck.

Your neck pain has a pattern. This book will help you break it.

About this title

From the Publisher

Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches is a truly one-of-a-kind book that answers the perplexing questions of why we have neck pain and how to fix it. The reason so many other approaches have failed to relieve neck pain, and continue to do so, is they did not address the largest and most constant force acting on the neck and head--the shoulders.

Unlike joints in the rest of the body, the shoulder blades and arms are a floating system held in place by muscles and ligaments. Two of these muscles holding up the arms and shoulders connect directly to the vertebrae of the neck and the base of the skull. When the shoulder blades are not working correctly, excessive stress is transmitted along these muscles to the cervical spine and skull. This unrelenting force affects the tissues of the neck such as nerves, disks, ligaments, and even bones creating diagnoses such as bulging or herniated disks, thoracic outlet syndrome, arthritis, chronic neck strain, tension headaches, and more.

Rick clearly explains how to fix the shoulders and neck, thereby eliminating neck pain and headaches forever. This is achieved by addressing individual muscle weakness or tightness together with correcting poor movement strategies feeding these issues. To remove all guesswork, Rick has provided FREE video clips of all exercises found in the book on the Fixing You website. No one has done so much to ensure that you eliminate your pain as quickly and thoroughly as possible.

Chances are your neck pain and headaches persist because no one has ever addressed the shoulder complex in relation to them. Now is the time to fix yourself. Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches has the answers you've been missing for so long.

About the Author

Rick Olderman is a physical therapist, personal trainer, and Pilates instructor living in Denver, CO. Rick believes pain is a signal that something is wrong with the body. The body's natural state is to be painfree. Rick also believes that most of the problems leading to chronic pain are found in faulty movement patterns. Through ample illustrations and client stories, his easy-to-read books teach you what these are and how to correct them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boone Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982193718
• ISBN 13: 9780982193716
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 94