Why Your Neck and Shoulders Are Always Tight
The 7 causes of chronically tight neck and shoulder muscles: The underlying cause of tight shoulders is NOT muscular. If you neck and shoulders are always tight, and massage never gives lasting results it’s usually because you have stuck joint at the base of your neck. This is extremely common and results in tight, sore shoulder muscles that never seem to go away. (Other symptoms can include neck pain, upper back pain, arm pain, numbness, or pins and needles. Even headaches and dizziness.) Prolonged forward neck flexion causes these stuck joints, so, if you keep asking yourself “Why are my shoulders constantly tight” you need to avoid these 7 positional habits.
How do you release the neck & upper back joints that are stuck? Here’s 2 video that show you exactly how:
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0:00 Intro
0:11 Why Your Shoulders Are Constantly Tight
1:03 The two things to fix tight shoulders
1:26 The 7 causes of tight shoulders
2:59 Bonus Tip & Bloopers 😉
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if your shoulders are always tight and massage never gives you any lasting relief here’s why and how you can fix it once and for all every vertebrae has two sliding joints above it and two sliding joints below it and when we’re in a straight neutral position these joints sit on each other nice and neatly but when we move out of that neutral position the joints don’t sit so well on each other and if we stay in that position they can become irritated and stuck the joints at the base of your neck are particularly susceptible to seizing up if your neck is flexed forward for long periods of time the surrounding muscles tighten up to protect the joints giving you tight shoulders this can happen when your head is forward of your body or when you’re looking down for long periods of time and this is why this problem is so common because that’s what we tend to do all day massage doesn’t help because the underlying issue is joint restriction and the muscle tightness is only a secondary effect to fix this problem you need to do two things avoid those positions and I’m going to show you seven ways to do that and release those stuck joints I have a couple of videos on how to do that so I’ll leave a link to them below avoiding these seven bad positions is the key though if you don’t change your positional habits and that’s the underlying cause of your tight shoulders it’ll keep coming back so instead of looking at your phone like this lift your phone High High support the elbow of your arm with your other hand or on an armrest to avoid tension in the shoulders from holding your phone up avoid sleeping with a big pillow or two pillows one mediumsized pillow will keep your neck straighter instead of sleeping in a fetal position straighten up your neck and spine before drifting off to sleep hugging a pillow with the top of the pillow underneath your chin can help you sleep straighter at night never look at books phones or laptops in bed face up or sitting up when you’re sitting in bed your head isn’t just forward of your body it’s pushed forward and held there by the Bed Head which is terrible for your neck so instead lie on your side to look at books and phones so that your neck is nice and straight with the rest of your spine leaning your head against the back rest of a sofa is just as bad as sitting in bed moving your pelvis right back in the sofa will help to avoid a rounded spine and forward head position instead of craning forward to see computer screens bring them forward to Arms distance and increase font size and raise computer screen so that the top of your screen is at eye level and plug laptops into a PC monitor to avoid craning forward to see the laptop screen now here’s a bonus tip watching TV in bed is terrible for your neck because you’re essentially looking towards your feet you wouldn’t walk around like this all day would you so just sit on the sofa to watch TV one alternative could be screwing your TV to the roof but if you do that just make sure that the screws you use are very secure [Music]