Keeping Your Neck Pain Free By Ashley Osier MA, HHE, CPS, CSMT, CAMT, CAYT, CWHP ~ Holistic Wellness for Mind, Body, and Spirit ~ Chronic neck pain plagues hundreds of thousands of people in our society. Through my education and experience in working with clients in chronic pain from conditions and injuries and with my own chronic pain issues over the past 20 years, I continue to find the need to empower individuals with tools to be good stewards of their own pain management to be critical. The following is from the American Academy of Pain Medicine. "Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. The chart below depicts the number of chronic pain sufferers compared to other major health conditions." facts on pain Condition Number of Sufferers Source Chronic Pain 100 million Americans Institute of Medicine of The National Academies ( 2 ) Diabetes 25.8 million Americans (diagnosed and estimated undiagnosed) American D...
Acupressure~Therapeutic Stretching~Pain Management~Rehabilitation~Wellness