Month: August 2021

Osteopaths’ Advice For Back & Neck Fitness

Around 67 per cent of individuals have indications linked to neck irritation, shoulder discomfort, or scapular suffering. The number of cases has surged in the last years, assumably due to the high usage of tablets and mobile phones. We’re bending over our desks, crouched over a computer, or travelling long distances regularly. All of this might influence the neck and upper back.

In many circumstances, the neck is prohibited from moving willingly, resulting in a pinched nerve or the neck muscles becoming ‘hypertonic,’ meaning extremely tight, limiting action and resulting in pain. This pain can, after that, develop symptoms in other parts of the body, such as sickness and vomiting.

How can an Osteopath assist you?

Osteopaths can use various gentle treatments for neck pain and spasms and strengthen flexibility in the neck and upper backpacks. Gently rubbing the soft tissues in the joints to lessen stress or gently manipulating the neck to get joints moving is a star treatment.

Other parts of the back and shoulders, as well as the neck, may require therapy.

Here are few tips for back and neck pain from an Osteopath :

The agony of back pain is akin to the worst of dental pain. So, here are few tips to improve your back and neck pain

  • Continue to be active

It is critical to stay moving to avoid muscle stiffness. Neck pain can be relieved by doing 30 minutes of exercise five times a week that involves neck movements. This could include activities such as walking, yoga, or Pilates. Neck strengthening exercises are beneficial for reducing neck pain, and your osteopath can advise you on which ones are best for you.

  • Technology Repositioning

It’s not ideal for your neck to be constantly gazing down at your tablet or phone. The more time you pay doing this, the more stress you put on your neck. It is therefore suggested that your mobile phones and computer monitor are positioned at eye level to minimise neck pain.

  • Neck Pain Exercising

Small stretching exercises throughout the day might help alleviate neck stiffness. The “chin tuck” is a crucial exercise that facilitates you to retain good posture by keeping your head aligned over your spine. It spans your scalene and suboccipital muscles as well. It’s also significant to remember to stay hydrated, as dehydrated tissue has a propensity to stiffen.

Maintain a good posture.
It’s vital to know to sit and stand appropriately for decent posture. If you work in an office, try to prevent hunching over and revise your seat and screen heights. Maintain your feet shoulder-width distant when standing, your shoulders back, and your arms hanging willingly.

Lastly,

Osteopathy is a therapy that utilises delicate manipulation of your muscles. To find the source of your neck pain, a qualified osteopath will do a physical analysis. They will then use the proper pain-relieving methods, such as massage, soft tissue spanning, and modest release procedures. Following that, you will be given instructions on how to prevent your neck pain from recurring.

Wisdom Tooth Removal: The Most Traumatic Dental Procedure

Ask anyone about any dental procedure they’ve had, and outside of having a general and professional clean, most would consider some level of trauma involved.

For some it’s traumatic just making an appointment. For others just being in the chair is enough to bring on some level of certain discomfort, let alone anxiety.

I for one recount my experience as a 12-year-old with potential overcrowding as the first traumatic experience of my life aside from being born. That, of course I don’t remember thanks to the handy trick of nature’s amnesia, so it doesn’t count.

This was the usual procedure of needing four premolars removed: two from the top, two from the bottom and done one side at a time. Until then, my trips to the dentist had always been positive affairs. I had good healthy teeth, and my parents (with kudos to them) were very focussed on their children’s dental health and hygiene for all us three kids, so 6 monthly check-ups were routine with our friendly dentist only a block away.

In those days you got a Rosy Red Apple red-and-green lollypop for being a good patient, and that of course was always worth it. I liked the dentist chair. It was like a really short ride at Luna Park and when it was up I couldn’t reach the ground.

I’d been told by my mum before we went that I’d be having two teeth taken out but it meant nothing to me; I think I thought that just like the Tooth Fairy magically left 20c under your pillow, somehow something else magical would happen to make my teeth disappear. Like a lamb to the slaughter I happily hopped into the chair and waited for something good to happen.

Most certainly it didn’t. I’d never had a needle in my mouth before and when I saw one coming I was having none of it.

I cried and screamed and punched until two dental nurses held me down. Eight needles went in, and with the dentist’s knee on my chest, he took all four out at once.

He explained to my now distressed mother, hearing this terrible ordeal from the waiting room, that he had to take them all because he knew he’d never get me in the chair again.

Too right. And as much as I had beautiful straight white teeth until my 50s, that dental phobia never left. Eventually it led to periodontal disease that I deeply regret; not only for my own health, but also for the car my parents sold to pay for the braces that gave me beautiful teeth in the first place.

So trauma squared, I reckon.

Asking whether wisdom tooth extraction is the most traumatic dental procedure is a bit like asking whether arsenic or strychnine is most poisonous. Unless you’re blessed with an incredible pain threshold, and are immune to the sounds of drilling and cracking, an extraction is distressing.

Naturally, the procedure and the healing both become more difficult the older we get.
The process itself is actual trauma to your mouth, particularly for adults, because it sometimes means the tooth has to be broken into pieces before it can be completely removed.

And we haven’t even touched on Full-Bony Impacted wisdom tooth where it’s completely fused to the jaw. One up from that is Partial-Bony Impacted, where it’s (only) partially stuck in the jawbone.

The kind of ‘win’ that doesn’t make you feel like a winner at all…

Almost 85% of people need a wisdom tooth extraction during their lifetime, and it’s not because we have too many teeth, but because evolution and dietary changes have given us a jaw that’s too short.

Thanks, nature!

It’s been a common a procedure for decade upon decade, that many dental experts advise taking wisdom teeth out before they cause problems. But now some dentists don’t recommend that at all because of the risks involved with anesthesia, the surgery itself and the cost of the procedure.

Research has shown that young children injected with anesthetic for dental care sometimes don’t grow lower wisdom teeth, suggesting it might be possible to deliberately stop wisdom teeth from growing. Two things may account for this: the anesthetic solution or trauma from the needle hitting the wisdom tooth bud.

I didn’t get my lower wisdom teeth, and suspect it was from this hypodermic syringe damage.

At least wisdom tooth removal is one trauma I won’t have to endure.