Headaches
Persistent Neck and Head Discomfort Affecting Your Mobility and Daily Activities?"
Do you find it challenging to check over your shoulders while driving, reach into overhead cabinets, sleep comfortably, lift weights, or carry out your usual tasks at home or work?
If this resonates with you:
- Did you anticipate the discomfort to subside after a few days or weeks, only to find it persisting?
- Have you tried remedies like heating pads, ice, or home TENS machines with no relief?
- Did massages provide temporary relief, only for the discomfort to return shortly after?
- Have medical interventions like injections or medications offered short-lived relief?
- Has past physical therapy failed to alleviate your discomfort?
- Have you resigned to avoiding activities that exacerbate your pain in hopes of managing it?
At Integrative Therapy and Performance Specialists in Fort Mill, SC, we’re dedicated to helping you discover long-term solutions for your neck and head discomfort.
Common neck conditions we address include:
- Joint Stiffness
- Headaches
- Muscle Tension and Strains
- Injuries & Degenerative Disc Disease
Understanding the root causes:
- Impaired Mechanics: Weakness and muscle imbalances restrict joint or muscle flexibility, affecting posture.
- Injury: Sudden forces or strains on tissues.
- Chronic compensations: Previous injuries or fear of future ones lead to muscle avoidance and overuse of other tissues.
Our Approach:
- Break the pain cycle through tissue mobility enhancement, manual therapy, and education.
- Improve joint, muscle, and nerve mechanics during daily activities and exercise.
- Strengthen tissues to better handle demands and prevent reinjury.
Specific Treatments:
- Correcting thoracic and neck posture.
- Reducing upper neck muscle tension.
- Increasing flexibility in neck and chest muscles.
- Utilizing manipulation, manual joint mobilizations, and traction.
- Enhancing activation of deep neck flexors and shoulder blade muscles.
- Massage, instrument-assisted mobilization, cupping, and dry needling to improve tissue mobility.
- Specific nerve exercises to reduce nerve sensitivity.
- Advancing plyometric and functional exercises.
Key Concepts:
- Tissues heal, but may need assistance transitioning from inflammation to recovery.
- MRI and x-ray results may not correlate with actual discomfort.
- Soreness after exercise may indicate tissue growth and should be monitored.
- Returning to previous activities is achievable with proper guidance, mechanics, and gradual loading.
Ready to find relief? Request an appointment with Clint Serafino, DPT, at Integrative Therapy and Performance Specialists in Fort Mill, SC.
What Other People Just Like You Are Saying About Integrative Therapy and Performance Specialists In Fort Mill
18+ 5 star reviews
- Juan Carlos G.
★★★★★ 5/5
Clint is a talented physical therapist who offers a unique perspective on how to assess and treat patients. I really appreciate the holistic manner in which he assesses each patient’s individual condition, to them come up with custom tailored plan towards improvement. He has helped me and a couple family members better understand how and why pain arises in the body, and how to manage and overcome it. Highly recommended.
- Jessica W.
★★★★★ 5/5
Clint is amazing I have been dealing with pain for almost two years now. He truly cares to get you back to your best. He listens to your concerns and goes above and beyond for you.