Neck Pain Edinburgh

Neck pain can often start with stiffness and tension and progress to sharp, achey, toothache like discomfort that can affect your ability to focus and concentrate. Pain can affect your whole neck or specific regions such as the base of your skull or between your shoulders. Often, there is accompanying pain around your upper shoulders or pain radiating into arms and hands. You may have a feeling of heaviness and pressure around your head and neck and that can progress to headaches and migraines.

What Causes Neck Pain?

The most common cause of neck pain is poor posture, particularly when using screens. Your head and neck are designed to stay upright, with your ears in line with your shoulders. As your head slumps forward, stress is placed on your joints and muscles. Over time this creates tension and eventually pain. Other causes include a history of whiplash, head injuries, concussion, chronic stress, falls and sporting injuries.

How Can We Help Your Neck Pain?

Chiropractors help by restoring normal motion to restricted joints that have seized up in response to stress. This allows tight muscles to relax and reduces irritation to nerves. By gently correcting these restrictions and prescribing tailor-made rehabilitation exercises and lifestyle changes, your chiropractor can help you to overcome neck pain and get back to an active life again.

Chiropractors are trained to diagnose and treat conditions of the neuromusculoskeletal system (nerves, muscles and bones). There is excellent evidence to support visiting a chiropractor for neck pain.