in your opinion, do you think yoga may actually help? we have been considering that option as well.

Yes it will help if you don't over do it.

Do not lift weights! Weight lifting might make you look good but it's not functional strengh. Weight lifting is the best way to destroy your shoulders and back.

I have done Yoga but I prefere Matt furey excersises. Less time, in the privacy of your home.

The books Combat Abs or Combat Conditioning would be great. Start with the Magnificient 7 and then do the wrestlers Bridge for example.

let me assure you that we live in a physical body and I do not believe that there are problems associated with pain that are purely non physical rooted.
I am convinced that body, mind and spirit are connected and are influencing each other however there can be no physical pain without physical (underlying root causes).
I checked and treated thousands of people and NONE was free of misalignments in the spine and ALL had misalignments in their sacrum although the pain was found in many different areas and often not at the area where I found a misalignment.
That leaves for me only one conclusion: It starts at the sacrum as the foundation of the spine and every therapy must include the re-alignment of the sacrum as well in order to achieve balance again.
In your case: beside possible contributing factors on the nonphysical side (e.g. stress in whatever form) you developed a problem in the neck due to a misalignment in the sacrum that brought the spine out of balance and paved the way for other problems e.g. misalignments, postural imbalances etc. ending up with detectable problems in the neck as a result of long term adjustments the body had to make in order to counter act the sacrum problem.
The good news: since i was able to prove this statement by helping basically all of my patients (at least the ones that followed my advices and did all necessary life style changes and exercises)I can assure you that we do not live in a ´status quo´or in other words ´standind still´, we constantly are in a state of development and therefore your condition is surely developing as well and with the correct approach you might be able to reverse the situation.
One thing is for sure: you have to do the majority of this work no-one else can do this for you. (althought you may need some initial help from a pro when it comes to basic re-alignments in the structural system)

Did you check out the exercises I recommend in my website?

Looking forward to hear good new from you soon.

Blessings
Thomas

All of the above posts are true. Stress does create the subluxations (misalignments) in the spine. For more information on corrective chiropractic go here... http://www.idealspine.com. Most chiropractors who practice this technique and another like it (Pettibon) do not use the full traction devices as shown. Correction is achievable with the adjustments and exercises SPECIFIC to correcting curves. Sure some of the exercises mentioned (Matt Furey) may cause pains to go away by creating more stability, but none of them have been proven to restore a loss of a cervical curve.

I highly recommend that you return to your chiropractor and ask your questions. It seems to me that he/she may not have answered all of them. Depending on what phase of subluxation degeneration your husband is in, he may require ongoing care. The reason is not only because he has a loss of curvature in his neck, but because in order to express 100% of your God-given life expression, your nervous system MUST be free of interference. A loss of cervical curvature has been shown to stretch the spinal cord like a piece of taffy up to 5-7cm causing it to narrow in diameter. A reversal of the cervical curve causes significant pathological tension on the brainstem and associated nerve roots.

Haze

Hi #68447,

My husband nearly went through the Chirpractic approach. In fact he still may, but let me update what has taken place these last 6 mos.

The chripractic care was not covered by our insurace, they only cover 12 visits with an in doctor, no more than that. We could have switched when our daughter was born, but the best program out there was 24 visits I think. But by that time we found something that worked.

I had researched the Alexander Method and emailed a few people in the city that practice this method. I was curious as to whether it would work for him or not. By one of the instructors on this method, it was recommended that we try out the Egoscue method (which is very close to the Alexander).

Willing to try anything safe at this point, I placed his books on loan at our library. "Pain Free", "Pain Free at the PC" and for myself "Pain Free for Women" (I figured it couldn't hurt). They are by Pete Egoscue. (by the way buy.com has them the cheapest on the web)

I read the Pain Free at the PC and it seemed to make all the sence that I needed to advice him to try these before anything else. What they are are basic exercises that strengthen all different parts of your body in a bilateral sequence. The body is bilateral so we should work it that way, 2 arms, 2 legs, etc. The overall statement of the method is "muscles move the bones" so if you tell your muscles how to properly sit, stand, etc your bones will therefore react.

My husband has been doing these exerceses for about 20 minutes a day now for 5 months and, praise the Lord, hasn't had any major problems with his neck since then. There are a few days that he misses his exercises and may start to feel the pain coming back, as long has he takes an immediate break and go through the exercise routine, the pain stops and he feels great.

we went back to our naturalpathic chrirpractor and brought this up to him. He explained that they do work. But if there is ever a time when he feels or tells that his body is in misallignment (he gave him some tests to do to determine this) the fastest approache is to get cracked again. So rather than a few hundered visits, maybe just a handful throughout the year. And it is totally managable through the exercises.

I strongly recommend to get at least the Pain Free at the PC book, even if you don't use the computer too much. It's an easy read, probably in a day or 2 you could read it all and start the program. They also have a website and clinics in cities around the US you may be interested in, they cost money and are not covered by insurance though.

I am so grateful for the person who recommened the book to us, I strongly recommend it as well.