Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Thoracic Outlet Syndrome/Brachial Plexopathy. In Memory Of DeAnne Marie.


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Old 06-10-2016, 12:45 PM #11
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Took a break from exercises which stress the neck. Replaced prone covras with rubber bands. No change in two months.
The neck is in near constant low-grade pain. Worse at night and after computer work.

Also doing a lot of self massage on the trigger points in the neck. There are many tender areas in SCM, occipitals, traps and scalenes, Not seeing much effect.
Often pressing on of one of these triggers a headache so I can't be too agressive with this.

Will continue for a coupule months before trying something else.
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Old 07-11-2016, 01:40 PM #12
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I suspect you are one of those folks whose upper traps are taking a beating each time you do shoulder depressions and activating lower traps. And that's yanking on your UT & causing them to spasm and causing the Suboccipital headaches. Since you already broke out of your pain-nerve cycle, worth dropping these exercises and seeing what happens
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have you had a neurologist do the 30 seconds hands on clinical diagnosis of occipitial neuralgia?

a trial of prescriptions and neck injected nerve blockers may rule out if you may be a candidate for? occipital nerve surgery. It has helped many with headaches due to the occipital nerve being inflamed.

any exercise that works the traps, or neck muscles may inflame that nerve due to the nearby muscles around that neck being involved.

slowly...tilting your head up or down, left or right, twisting left or right...if it can increase chances of headaches...can also be a possible indicator.

I can not do upright rows, overhead presses, and other certain neck movements without my occipital starting to flare up. (me not yet a candidate for the occipital nerve surgery)

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Akash, yes, I think may be right. Upper traps are definitely contributing to the headaches though I don't know if they are the primary cause. I don't have regular pain in the traps themselves and can't tell if they are spasming.
But if I compress the UT muscle in the area where the neck meets the body, I get referred pain in the back of the neck. Have been doing self-massage of these areas for a while hoping to resolve trigger points, but with no effect so far.
It is possible that lower trap exercises are messing with the upper traps too so I was doing less of those recently. Again without much effect one way or the other.
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Pedalspinner, no I was never diagnosed with occipitial neuralgia.
My GP told me I don't have it though he did not do any tests. The neurologists I saw never tested me for it either.
You are right that certain neck movements and positions trigger pain.
Thankfully my headaches are not too bad to consider a surgery.
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I remember you were doing bent over rows.. try stopping those. They recruit the neck musculature extensively..basically, if your neck is bent or not straight on your spine, stop any shoulder strengthening as it will stretch your neck muscles.. which may be still healing.
anything that works your neck muscles or traps is likely to cause more occipital area inflamation. for me, no more bent over lateral raises, standing lateral raises, over head presses, upright rows, etc. I have proven this out...one by one...even time on my indoor cycle trainer requires upright position (and still feels weird)
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An update.
After a 3 week vacation from computer work and regular upper trap TP self-massage for a few months the headaches and back-of-the-neck pains have subsided.
I also have been avoiding any neck-straining exercises.
Still have a bit of neck pain when I wake up in the morning, but nothing too bad.

Unfortunately I am back working on computer all day so we'll see how long this lasts...
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