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30 DYC Day 13 Neck Healing
Rabbit Pose Sasangasana
Neck pain is by far one of the most common causes of disability globally, and it’s not always centralised in the neck. It can radiate across your whole upper body, affecting your shoulders, arms and chest and can even cause headaches. Living with neck pain can be miserable, making it hard to focus and get through the day.Neck pain can be debilitating and may interfere with day-to-day life, including your ability to sleep, feel productive, and enjoy time with friends and family. And it affects more than just your physical body. There have been many studies linking chronic pain to mental health and severe depression.Neck mobility is capable of moving the head in many directions: 90° of flexion (forward motion), 90° of extension (backward motion), 180° of rotation (side to side), and almost 120° of tilt to either shoulder. But all that mobility comes at the cost of complexity. First you’ve got your seven vertebrae (C1 through C7), each cushioned by an intervertebral disc and connected by facet joints. There are also 32 muscles, plus the tendons that attach them to bones, that help move and stabilize the neck, as well as a number of ligaments attaching bones to each other. That’s a lot of action in a comparatively small area.
Common causes of neck pain:
Injuries and accidents like; whiplash or nerve compression.Health conditions like; osteoarthritis or other forms of arthritis, spinal infection, spinal cord compression, tumors.There are also lifestyle issues like; extra weight, stress and poor posture.There are different types of neck pain.- Neuropathic neck pain ( coming from the nerves or nerve roots)
- Mechanical neck pain (coming from muscles, ligaments, bones or cartilage)
- Central neuropathic neck pain ( Injury, stroke or MS or injury to the central nervous system.)
I’ve spent years treating people with neck pain and it’s probably something I could talk about for hours 🙂
The Rabbit Pose creates exactly the opposite effect from the Camel posture. Straining the spinal nervous system helps to attain the necessary nutrition in the form of blood and oxygen. It also maintains the mobility and elasticity of the spine and back muscles. The Rabbit Pose improves digestion and helps cure colds and chronic tonsillitis. It affects the thyroid and parathyroid glands. This pose also improves the flexibility of the shoulder blades and trapezius muscles, and relieves tension in the neck, shoulders and back. It helps insomnia, diabetes and depression.
Starting in Rabbit Pose, Kneeling on knees and shins, place the crown of your head to the earth, lifting your hips into the air, bringing the head in close to the knees. Placing your elbows on either side of your head to stabilize, you can use your hands to knead your shoulders in a massage to release tension from the shoulders while the neck muscles stretch, or simply hold the back of your head with your hands, another position is to extend the arms backwards parallel with the legs and place the hands on the heels. Try at least 5
breaths in this pose.
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