[hellodarren1]

I have a pretty typical case of postural TOC caused by a life-time of sedate computer use. One of the things that I find really helps is just lying on the floor where I spread my shoulders and move my head into a neutral position, gravity seems to do a nice job of slowly stretching the neck muscles.

One thing I've noticed though is that if I put my hands just above my head and spread my shoulders it really stretches out my arm and shoulders, but after about 30 seconds I get a sudden rush of quite severe pins and needles. So far I've only been able to hold it for a further minute or so after which when I got up the ends of my fingers and especially my thumb felt a little numb which lasted a good 5 minutes.

I was reading that pins and needles is a good sign as it means the blood is flooding back into areas it previously found hard to reach, but the slight numbness I get afterwards is concerning me. The above shoulder stretch feels really good but I'm unsure whether to stop it, just do it in bursts, or if in fact it's doing a lot of good so should continue to hold it for as long as I can.

Any advice? Thanks.