The one time I wore a hard collar, for like ten minutes, I got excruciating thoracic spine pain (in a place that gives my problems daily but to a much lesser extent). I feel like I’m immobilizing my spine in a problematic position somehow
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There's a spot in my thoracic that also has pain, but not necessarily triggered by the collar. I think mine has to do with adhesions at the nerve roots (around t3-t4) and a lack of flexibility there. Dr.
Raymond Perrin focuses a lot on that area in his book.
I started with my lumbar spine stabilizing years ago, as that was what I thought was causing all my back and hip pain.
It helped some, but slowly dealing with various adhesions over the years has been really helpful. I think my CCI issues led to the rest of my spine stuff to balance it out.
I'm just guessing on the adhesions, but symptoms and crashing response when I would "stretch" one of my affected areas a bit too much kinda pointed in that direction. But tiny little gradual movement to break them up VERY SLOWLY over time has really helped with TOS and spine stuff.
If you had some adhesions on the nerve/muscles in the area, then every time it moves it could yank them, causing more inflammation, which could lead to more adhesions developing. A bad feedback loop!
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Raymond Perrin focuses a lot on that area in his book.
It helped some, but slowly dealing with various adhesions over the years has been really helpful. I think my CCI issues led to the rest of my spine stuff to balance it out.
And with us already overwhelmed with neuroinflammation, it would easily push us over the edge into a crash from barely lifting our arms.