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Occipital neuralgia is caused by damage to the occipital nerves, which can arise from trauma (usually concussive or cervical), physical stress on the nerve, repetitive neck contraction, flexion or extension, and/or as a result of medical complications (such as osteochondroma, a benign bone tumour). A rare cause is a cerebrospinal fluid leak.
Forward head posture (FHP) [1] is an excessively kyphotic (hunched) thoracic spine. It is clinically recognized as a form of repetitive strain injury. [citation needed] The posture can occur in dentists, [2] surgeons, [3] and hairdressers, [4] or people who spend time on electronic devices. [citation needed] It is one of the most common ...
Common responses include tensing one’s jaw, contracting the abdominal muscles, holding one’s breath and hunching one’s shoulders. [20] Persistent psychological stressors such as career dissatisfaction, financial difficulties, or family problems [ 21 ] may cause physical changes in the body like rounded shoulders, tension headaches and ...
Abnormal posturing is an involuntary flexion or extension of the arms and legs, indicating severe brain injury.It occurs when one set of muscles becomes incapacitated while the opposing set is not, and an external stimulus such as pain causes the working set of muscles to contract. [1]
Torticollis can happen when there are issues with the sternocleidomastoid muscle, like if it's too short, causing the head and neck to be in an odd position. [25] Torticollis can also be caused by problems with bones, muscles, or the spine in the neck, leading to difficulty moving the head and neck normally. [ 25 ]
This causes the brain to lose its buoyancy, which results in pressure on pain-sensitive areas like the dura and blood vessels. The resulting pain is a headache , and because the brain is more reliant on its buoyancy in an upright position the headache can be relieved by switching to a horizontal position.
One common example of bad form is hanging on, or leaning over, the handrails on treadmills and elliptical machines. “People often hang on the handrails when they’re getting tired, instead of ...
TOS can involve only part of the hand (as in the pinky and adjacent half of the ring finger), all of the hand, or the inner aspect of the forearm and upper arm. Pain can also be in the side of the neck, the pectoral area below the clavicle, the armpit/axillary area, and the upper back (i.e., the trapezius and rhomboid area).