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The Best Neck and Shoulder Pain Relief Tip
“I carry my stress in my neck and shoulders,” says everybody coming into my office.
I practice neuromuscular therapy, a massage technique aimed at unwinding tense and damaged muscles to relieve muscle and nervous system problems, such as poor circulation, bad posture, nerve compression, or issues from old, new, or recurring injuries.
It feels like everybody and their mothers have issues with their neck and shoulders. Some of it can be attributed to working at desks, posture slowly sliding forward into the computer screen as one’s spine becomes more of an angry croissant than the graceful S indicative of healthy posture.
More often, I see it comes from stress.
In Greek mythology, Atlas was condemned by Zeus to hold up the earth and sky after the Titanomachy war. Artwork of the Greek god depicts the muscular man carrying the earth on his upper back, balanced between his shoulder blades and beneath a flexed cervical spine.
Ouch, he is literally carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.
But why are you carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders?
Zeus didn’t condemn you to hold up earth and sky for all eternity, yet the stress of the world, society, and all of its…
