Hello again everyone!
This entry isn't going to be long, I'll admit right now I have a huge tension migraine but wanted to get this written out. I'm using a heated up bean bag for my neck and shoulders and have taken some naproxen as well as I just discovered some stretches that I've just tested that actually feel like they could and do work. The stretches are here and if you follow to the next page of that article there are some other exercises that I will be testing as well for strengthening etc.
Why am I talking about this? Because neck and back pain seem to be a major issue in my field of work along with obesity. With these things and a stationary lifestyle at the computer most of the time it is inevitable that these health problems will arise. Thing is that it's become an epidemic! We were not meant to have this kind of lifestyle. We were built to move! I can see it now, really I can, becoming nothing but rolling balls of flub held up by technology just as in Wall-E. Or even better yet another example would be the Baron from Dune (the miniseries version not the Lynch one). It's true! We're on our way to becoming that. Not being able to hold ourselves up, not having sufficient nutrients other than to just keep us alive.
We must keep mobile! So I'm trying to do exercises and keep walking instead of taking a cab etc. Even at work I'm standing sometimes while taking calls or while talking to a customer simply because I can't stand sitting anymore! It just hurts or I feel like I have to expend extra energy! I will also add that I love the video in the above link because he talks about what our necks are doing, which is exactly what my massage therapist said while I was still going. I should go back really and after tax time I think I will. Your head is being supported by your neck and your head is the heaviest part of your body, weighing about the size of a bowling ball which I've never picked up but have heard that they are heavy!! That being said, if your head is that heavy and you don't have good posture, no wonder it feels like the neck can't support it. I know I have terrible posture, I have better posture at home though compared to at work despite the ergo set up at my desk. Here at home I probably could get something to lift the screen up a bit to more eye level but my back and typing are better when sitting. At work I tend to want to lean my entire body forward especially my head and am constantly using the mouse.
Well that's it for now, I may write more later this month. This migraine is of course getting worse looking at the screen now. Conclusion for this entry: Keep mobile and don't let the pain take hold!
