Do you ever find your arms and hands numb in the morning when you wake up?
Or when you are watching a movie?
Are your hands and arms cold all or most of the time?
Do you sleep the same way every night?
Do you sleep on your side?
How many times DO you raise your arms and hands over your head?
Do you drive or travel for hours?
If you have answered yes to many of these questions, the solutions are quite simple.
First take note of how many times you raise your hands and arms over your head in a 24 hour day.
Lack of movement can cause the muscles in your arms to become smaller and atrophy over time, the nerves and circulation will also become smaller due to a smaller demand upon them.
Realize that if you choose to sleep upon the same way every night that this creates pressure points where ever you touch the mattress.
These pressure points are due to lack of circulation in the areas that are compressed while you sleep.
These areas then collect loose connective tissue, much like a small spider web between the muscle fibers, which slow down the circulation to the nerves creating pain.
In a nursing home where they do not turn a person, that person gets bed sores. In a person that doesn't turn during the night while they sleep, they get sore spots that become worse over time.
If you travel to and from work for hours, then sit all day not moving your arms over your head, not even to stretch once in a while this can cause severe pain from lack of movement.
If there is no demand on the nerves they will get smaller.
Please work out with weights, even if they are light.
Weight bearing exercise will put more demand upon the nerves so they will stay the same size. If you add more weight and become stronger, the nerves and circulation will also become stronger, less pain!
If you've gotten weaker and need to start out slow, try just laying on your stomach on the bed and lifting yourself up on your elbows, moving from one side to the other and picking your upper body up, like a half push up. Lay on your side and lift yourself up on one elbow to strengthen it.
Pull yourself forward with both of your elbows to also strengthen your shoulders.
If you decide to not do anything about how you sleep or move, you might find out one day that you can not reach up over your head at all, that's because when the movement is not used, the nerves stop working and the area stiffens up, it also becomes very painful to move.
At my office, I do intense multi-dimensional neuromuscular massage therapy.
I have treated frozen shoulder on many people over the years. Frozen shoulder can happen from lack of movement or from direct injury to the shoulder from falling upon it or car accident.
The neck is also involved from C4 to C7.
I treat the shoulders and neck from as many angles as physically possible.
The muscles change fiber direction, much like turning a rope, every time you turn your arm to a new position.
I also add therapeutic hot stones to bring in moist heat to further loosen the muscles while I work the areas.
This March it will be ten years that I have been at my office in South Lyon, MI.
I have treated many with frozen shoulder, carpel tunnel, rotator cuff, and whiplash injuries.
My video titled Advanced Therapeutic Massage South Lyon is on You Tube, and Video Surf, many people have helped me make it to show my techniques.
I hope this isn't to long of a rant and I can help.
Please come in for a massage.
Or when you are watching a movie?
Are your hands and arms cold all or most of the time?
Do you sleep the same way every night?
Do you sleep on your side?
How many times DO you raise your arms and hands over your head?
Do you drive or travel for hours?
If you have answered yes to many of these questions, the solutions are quite simple.
First take note of how many times you raise your hands and arms over your head in a 24 hour day.
Lack of movement can cause the muscles in your arms to become smaller and atrophy over time, the nerves and circulation will also become smaller due to a smaller demand upon them.
Realize that if you choose to sleep upon the same way every night that this creates pressure points where ever you touch the mattress.
These pressure points are due to lack of circulation in the areas that are compressed while you sleep.
These areas then collect loose connective tissue, much like a small spider web between the muscle fibers, which slow down the circulation to the nerves creating pain.
In a nursing home where they do not turn a person, that person gets bed sores. In a person that doesn't turn during the night while they sleep, they get sore spots that become worse over time.
If you travel to and from work for hours, then sit all day not moving your arms over your head, not even to stretch once in a while this can cause severe pain from lack of movement.
If there is no demand on the nerves they will get smaller.
Please work out with weights, even if they are light.
Weight bearing exercise will put more demand upon the nerves so they will stay the same size. If you add more weight and become stronger, the nerves and circulation will also become stronger, less pain!
If you've gotten weaker and need to start out slow, try just laying on your stomach on the bed and lifting yourself up on your elbows, moving from one side to the other and picking your upper body up, like a half push up. Lay on your side and lift yourself up on one elbow to strengthen it.
Pull yourself forward with both of your elbows to also strengthen your shoulders.
If you decide to not do anything about how you sleep or move, you might find out one day that you can not reach up over your head at all, that's because when the movement is not used, the nerves stop working and the area stiffens up, it also becomes very painful to move.
At my office, I do intense multi-dimensional neuromuscular massage therapy.
I have treated frozen shoulder on many people over the years. Frozen shoulder can happen from lack of movement or from direct injury to the shoulder from falling upon it or car accident.
The neck is also involved from C4 to C7.
I treat the shoulders and neck from as many angles as physically possible.
The muscles change fiber direction, much like turning a rope, every time you turn your arm to a new position.
I also add therapeutic hot stones to bring in moist heat to further loosen the muscles while I work the areas.
This March it will be ten years that I have been at my office in South Lyon, MI.
I have treated many with frozen shoulder, carpel tunnel, rotator cuff, and whiplash injuries.
My video titled Advanced Therapeutic Massage South Lyon is on You Tube, and Video Surf, many people have helped me make it to show my techniques.
I hope this isn't to long of a rant and I can help.
Please come in for a massage.
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