Have you ever experienced a tension headache, the ache that starts from the base of your skull and radiates upward, and ends up on your forehead? It is actually the result of prolonged muscular contraction at the base of the skull (suboccipital region), usually caused by faulty posture, stress or anxiety. Chronic muscular contraction creates sustained pressure that can eventually tear small blood vessels or muscle fibers, leading to injured tissues. If the situation continues, the muscles will become ischemic (lack of blood flow) and lead to the buildup of harmful metabolites such as lactic acid. Then your greater occipital nerve, which is responsible for the sensation to the scalp and over the ears, will become irritated. At this point, you will start experiencing a plethora of symptoms like headache, ringing of the ear, dizziness, etc. This makes you even more stressed and anxious, and the vicious cycle continues.

Taking pain medications will not solve the problems. You can only sweep under the rug for so long until your medications stop working. Some people choose to get botox injection, which can be expensive and only works for short-term. The proper, free, long-term solution is to address the core of the issues: self posture correction. If this doesn’t solve the problem, the joints responsible for this faulty posture (C0-C1-C2) is likely stuck, and you need to seek help to address this problem. So much for a bad posture, right?
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From a biomechanical point of view, the tension of your chest muscles can pull your shoulders forward, promoting a forward head posture that is detrimental to the health of your neck. Over the course of my career, I have personally observed numerous cases of neck problems indirectly caused from excessive chest strengthening. For anyone who has a history of neck or shoulder pain, stretching of the chest muscles to relieve muscle tension can be helpful. Thus, it shouldn’t be a surprise that you are starting to experience neck or shoulder pain after breast implants. Unlike bodybuilding, breast augmentation is a sudden process that gives your spine less time to adapt to this new change, and it can certainly cause pain and discomfort. As a matter of fact, a group of medical doctors conducted a research to investigate the effect of size of implants on the curvature of your spine. It was found that healthy females who have more than 400g of breast implants ended up having irreversible alterations in their spinal curve, which can lead to stress and tension.
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If you’re experiencing neck pain, migraine, or shoulder pain after your breast implants, it can be a little scary, thinking that you may have made the wrong choice to your body.  If that’s the case, you should try conservative treatments first such as physical therapy. After a careful evaluation of the spine, treatments will be incorporated based on the mobility of the spine. Here at Your Neighbor Physical Therapy, we offer “no fine print” free consultation for people. Give us a call at (937) 419-3431 and talk to an expert about your neck problems.