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Article: Gentle strength exercises can reduce neck pain.(The Orange County Register)
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- February 27, 2004
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Byline: Lisa Liddane
That chronic pain in your neck is exactly what the same-named expression implies: a nuisance. Moving your head to look up or down is difficult, let alone turning your head to look behind before changing lanes on the road.
It's the kind of pain we get from spending a lot of time hunched in front of a computer or doing tasks that keep our neck in a fixed position.
What to do?
For years, physical therapists and personal fitness trainers have been recommending strength-training and flexibility exercises. Some of us reflexively work on the flexibility part, bending or stretching our neck when it feels tight after being ...