Heavy Purses, Neck and Shoulder Pain

Ladies, Ladies, Ladies!  This one if for you!  

Yesterday I had a new patient come in with chronic headaches, neck and shoulder pain on the left.  She also was carrying a purse that weighed about 12 pounds...on the left side.  Clearly there is a connection here.  Carrying a heavy load over and over again will undoubtedly cause a strain on your body.

I can assure you that you are carrying more than what you need in that purse (I have a wife, I know!).  My advise for you is to trim it out to the essentials.  If anything, leave a secondary purse in your car for the things you might need but don't need to travel with you everywhere.

Chronic stresses like that can create vertebral subluxations* that cause neck, shoulder pain and headaches.  This new patient had all of them! 

My job as a chiropractor is to identify not only your vertebral subluxations and correct them, but also what causes them in order to prevent them from happening.  In this case, one of the main stressors was easily identified, and can be easily corrected.

If you are suffering from chronic pain, and you haven't had your spine checked for subluxations, call your local chiropractor today.

Subluxation:
A misalignment in the bony structures of the spine. Subluxations can create pressure or irritation on the various nerves in your spine, and can cause a wide variety of symptoms throughout your body, such as localized pain, soreness, irregularity, and weakness. When pressure is applied on a nerve in your spine, the nerve energy is interrupted, and sometimes this can profoundly affect the function of other systems or organs in your body.

Dr. Eric - Your Santa Monica Chiropractor