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Chronic neck pain

2017-08-11 14:57:11
Is it safe to continue cervical traction followed by ultrasound and ift even if  there is no relief even after first 5 traction sessions or the trackion increasing the pain?
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It must be a shoulder muscles weakness that is leading to neck spasm and pain. Taking traction for such pain is I think useless. You need good postural correction and shoulder girdle strengthening
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Matrix Therapy and 2 weeks of extensive supervised Shoulder and neck rehab

Answered2017-08-11 17:38:38

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