For two years I had been suffering back pain from muscle spasms around my scapula, and pain in the joint between a rib and my spine. It would start every day at 12-2pm, and continue for the rest of the day.
I worked out (incl. DL, Squat, running), but had to stop because it exacerbated the pain.
Physio/Doctors/specialists/X-ray/MRI came up with nothing.
WFH exacerbated the issue.
It was impacting my life every day: I could only work for ~3 hours per day, and walking/driving became painful.
I'm 95% better now, and working on rehab.
Here's what helped (thanks to a spine physio):
* Avoiding craning my neck: raise monitor, raise phone.
* Frequent breaks.
* Scapula mobility.
* Deep neck flexor exercises.
I think this started when I heavily used my laptop on my couch, which relied on craning too much.
I worked out (incl. DL, Squat, running), but had to stop because it exacerbated the pain.
Physio/Doctors/specialists/X-ray/MRI came up with nothing.
WFH exacerbated the issue.
It was impacting my life every day: I could only work for ~3 hours per day, and walking/driving became painful.
I'm 95% better now, and working on rehab.
Here's what helped (thanks to a spine physio):
* Avoiding craning my neck: raise monitor, raise phone. * Frequent breaks. * Scapula mobility. * Deep neck flexor exercises.
I think this started when I heavily used my laptop on my couch, which relied on craning too much.
Resolving this has been my highlight of 2020.