by Cori Lefkowith | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog, Pain Relief
Do you sit at a computer for 9 hours a day and your wrists and elbows can get achy and sore? Or maybe you’ve noticed that doing moves such as push ups or handstands cause wrist or elbow pain?
That is because most of us spend lots of time with our wrists and elbows in flexion (actually basically our entire upper body is in flexion hunched over a computer screen), which can cause the muscles of our forearms and even our upper arms and upper back to get sore and tight.
This tightness in our forearms and our upper back can cause wrist and elbow pain and lead to injuries when we workout. When we go to the gym and do moves like push ups and handstands, we ask our wrists to be in extension, which they may be too tight to comfortably do.
Plus the tightness caused by sitting in flexion can also cause the extensors in our forearms and the muscles of our upper backs to be weak, which can also lead to injury when we lift because we may not be engaging the correct muscles and may be instead overusing weak muscles that can’t handle the load.
Below are 10 Tips to help you prevent and alleviate wrist and elbow pain at your desk and loosen up your upper body after sitting in flexion hunched over a computer. Any time you need a little break from typing, try one of these moves!
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by Cori Lefkowith | Dec 28, 2014 | Blog, Exercises, Foam Rolling, Pain Relief
If you sit at a desk all day hunched over a computer, odds are you’ve suffered from neck pain….all too many of us have.
And you may even have gone to get massages and done stretches and gotten a new pillow and tried changing your desk set up to alleviate the pain.
All without lasting results. All without alleviating the annoying ache.
That is because often our neck, and where we actually feel the pain, isn’t where the “true” problem is.
Often there are other imbalances elsewhere that are contributing to the pain and perpetuating our compensations.
Problems that aren’t corrected by only massaging our neck and changing our desk set up.
Problems that we may actually be making worse during our workouts by continually overusing the incorrect muscles because of postural distortions caused by sitting hunched over all day.
That is why we need to focus on adjusting our overall posture and not only loosening up tight muscles but also activating underactive ones!
Foam Roll + Stretch + Activate!
Below are 10 Quick Exercises to Alleviate Neck Pain.
These moves will alleviate your neck pain by loosening up tight muscles and activating the big muscles of your back. They will improve your spinal and shoulder mobility and get the correct muscles working to not only alleviate your neck pain, but also improve your posture.
And because these tips will improve your posture and get the correct muscles activated, they will also improve your strength so that you can lift more during your workouts.
Check out the 10 Tips below and start feeling better today!
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