Your cervical spine is supposed to have a natural C-curve. This curve allows your 7 vertebrae to maintain the space your discs need, and for your cervical nerves to flow without pressure.
When this curve is maintained, you turn your head, look behind you, and bend over without even thinking about it. Your neck dictates nothing.
But this is what happens when you spend your days with your head bent forward in front of a screen, month after month.
Your cervical curve flattens. Your vertebrae get closer. Your discs compress and dry out. The nerves passing between the vertebrae end up crushed. And on top of all that, your 11-pound head tilts forward, pulling all your cervical muscles and trapezius to hold it back.
This is the structural cause of morning stiffness, chronic neck pain, loss of mobility, tech neck, and that hump starting to grow at the base of your neck.
Neither painkillers, nor chiropractors, nor stretches correct the alignment. They treat the symptoms. As long as your vertebrae are not realigned, as long as the curve is not restored, your neck will always return to the same position. And the pain will return with it.
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