Thursday, April 9, 2009

Yoga for my neck

It seems like I've always had neck problems. I had torticollis when we lived in Florida, so before I started 1st grade. What is that, 5?

I'd also pull muscles in my neck periodically, but there was a time in college when it really was at least once a month I'd pull something in my neck. I'd finally feel better and then do it again. It got to the point where I went to the doctor, but all he said was take some medicine for the pain.

I noticed recently that I can't turn my head and look to the right as far as I used to. I still have the same amount of motion to the left, but the right is stiff. I really noticed it this morning when I had to turn in my seat to talk to someone. Blah.

My prescription: start doing neck stretching exercises twice a day.

4 comments:

  1. Isn't torticollis the most painful, aggravating thing?

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  2. The only things I remember from that experience is being upset at not being able to see the doctor (who was a neighbor of ours I believe) and mom bribing me to do the neck exercises with a fudgesicle. I think I'd take torticollis over kidney stones any day!

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  3. What if you had kidney stones and torticollis? You couldn't turn your head to barf in the toilet...

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