Remove Pain in the Neck!

BY most people, leeches are often regarded as disgusting blood-sucking beast. But in Nganjuk, East Java, leech animals actually used as a medium or tool to cure various diseases. What kind of alternative treatment with these leeches?

Already in recent years an alternative treatment with leeches media was introduced by Ustad Qomarudin, one teacher in boarding school As-Shidiq, Selorejo Village, District Bagor, Nganjuk District, East Java.

Now, though Ustad Qomarudin gone, leech treatment services keep running and forwarded by Mahrussoleh, his son who also teaches at Pondok Pesantren As-Shidiq.

Almost every day, several people with various illnesses complaints came in to try this leech therapy. Ranging from severe disease to mild disease, such as diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, gout, stroke, skin pain, and many more. VERY often we hear everyday expression "pain in the neck" is used that causes disturbed activity. Intense pain in the neck can be a very unpleasant experience.

Related to the following factors you hold the head-neck for approximately 16 hours a day, seven days a week and not feel pain only when lying down to sleep. During 16 hours of this, your neck feels stiff when working, hooked while watching television, reading, exercising, even when talking on the phone. So do not be surprised if your neck shouting for help!

Almost everyone has experience with pain or stiffness in the neck. Neck pain takes almost half of all the bone joints, and when the whole spine feels pain, this is the most common case (other than cough and flu) at the clinics, GP practices and ranks second as a cause one has to leave work.

Fortunately, most neck pain is not a sad condition. "Acute sprain of the neck muscles - acute 'Catherine' neck, is 50-60 percent of the causes of pain in the neck. However, this can be cured using simple treatments, such as analgesia, rest, and physical therapy. However, some pain is more pain serious than others, "said Dr Bernard Lee MK, Director of Interventional Pain Management Services, Pain Care Center Singapore, Singapore.

"There are other conditions that may threaten life or cause great discomfort and create other pain, like headaches, shoulder weakness, dizziness and low back pain," he explained.

Life-threatening condition

This condition requires immediate care and stabilization:

1. The condition of the cervical discs, this disc includes a bulge on the nerve compression that causes critical stenosis of the spinal canal, resulting in limb weakness and then paralysis

2. Cracks in the cervical spine that cause an imbalance and the possibility of paralysis.

3. Infections of the organs around the neck

4. Spontaneous aneurysm of the vertebral or carotid artery This occurs when blood vessels in the neck widened spontaneously.

5. Arthropati and osteoarthritis, pain arising from facet joint damage.

If we divide the categories of neck pain, pain can arise either locally or came from other regions. Causes of local pain in the neck can be caused by:

- Neural neck - nerve compression or irritation

- Ligamental and muscle injuries - sprains or whiplash.

- Segment the cervical spine - inflammation of small joints (facet)

- Terms of bone - cracked

- Infection

Even when the cause of neck pain is benign, it can be very disabling. Therefore, we should not underestimate the pain of the neck muscles due to local muscle terkilirnya that can spread to the shoulders, arms and even fingers. Sometimes it feels like chest pain or a stabbing pain in the shoulder.

If the pain is unbearable, you should immediately consult a doctor. For more information, contact Dr. Bernard Lee at www.paincarecenter.com.sg or www.flyfeeforhealth.com