If you want to know more about the general effects of acupuncture, please see here. In this section, I mention the cause of pain in the neck and how to treat by acupuncture.

The neck is easy to get pain as it supports the heavy head. Recently, the pain of the neck has increased because most of people have smartphones and spend long time looking down the phone when the neck is supporting the head   all the time,

 

There are a lot of causes of the pain in the neck, and the following diagnosis will be shown by the doctor.

 

Cervical Joint sprain, (Small bleeding and/or Edema due to damage of soft tissues such as ligaments, and joint capsule), Myofasciosis of Cervical muscles, Cervical dislocation, fracture, cervical disc herniation, cervical spinal stenosis, cervical spondylotic myelopathy, Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, Ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament,

 

In acupuncture treatment and massage, the treatment for myofasciosis works really well as the root of the pain is the muscle and myofascia and I work on it directly However, it is not possible to fix the root of the pain which comes from the deformity of the bone. For those diseases, the doctor's treatment is the first choice. However, the pain may remain after the series of treatment by doctors or rehabilitation by physio is completed. That is because the muscles around the neck reacted sensitive and get stiff, that will lead the nerves around them squeezed by the stiffness of the muscles. By massaging and acupuncture, the tension of the muscle and fascia get released and lighten the burden on the nerves that are causing the pain.

In the treatment, I will find the cause of the pain by examining carefully.