They just can't hold up your head and neck any more. They're tired, weak, and unable to manage your daily routine. Once they fatigue and your spinal joints become involved, it's only a matter of time before you'll experience the upper back muscle pain that stops you from being as effective or as energetic at work as you might like.
The same muscle pain that is ruining your day is being caused by a lack of strength in the upper back muscles, something that only exercise
can solve.
The first time someone gets a pain like this, they start taking medications or getting massages. These usually help... temporarily. If your job involves working at the computer, it's only a matter of time before the muscles get tired and overworked again. Then the pain returns once more.
More medications. More massages.
This pattern is usually repeated until the pain comes back so frequently and so severe that they seek professional help. If they seek out a chiropractor, we'll check their spine and adjust what we find.
Then we'll recommend exercises to help support the patient's spine and improve their posture. The goal is not to just make the pain go away once. The goal is to keep it from coming back at all, right?
You can use a variety of bodybuilding exercises along with stretching and using a foam roller to help work out the kinks and keep you pain free. Check out the workouts in the Bodybuilding section of this site.Take your upper back muscle pain and train it into a muscular back.