hey I'm going to show you how to naturally help neck pain that might be due to large breasts
there's an exercise that's extremely important to get better at as the years go by but first let me
just explain how breast size can contribute to neck pain through the muscle specifically
so of course breasts are going to be in the front right here the weight of the breast the bigger it
is can pull down on the entire arm and shoulder the shoulder blade the collarbone and not only
that but the bra strap that comes right over the end of the shoulder right here can also pull down
one of the things that we look at here in the clinic and there's a direct correlation to neck
pain is the angle of the collarbone collarbones right here should be up at about 20 degrees on
the skeleton it's at zero degrees we'll actually measure it with a protractor so we know the exact
degree measurement and it's something that we can track over time but if you have a large
chest and your bra straps are cutting into your shoulders right here you have a dent even that's
a sign that you're probably pushing down the end of this collar bone and when those collarbones
and shoulder blades and everything else is being weighted down it pulls on the muscles
that attach from the shoulder blades to the neck there's one muscle in specific called the upper
trapezius muscle they call it the traps it's your shrugging muscle right here when you shrug
up that's the muscle that stiffens up that works that pulls up and often that muscle gets tight
and stiff in people that have neck problems but they think that you need to stretch it out and
I'm actually here to tell you that you don't the most important exercise to be doing if you have
neck pain especially if you're large chested is to be strengthening your upper trap muscles your
shrugging muscles because those muscles attach from right here on the outside of the shoulder
and they go up and directly attached to each of the of the bones in the neck as well as the base
of the skull right here and if the weight of the of your chest and your bra straps are pulling down
right here it pulls down this muscle and forces compressed question to go to go through all the
neck bones right here which ends up pinching nerves herniating discs causing arthritis in
the neck over time and much other worse things that people end up getting surgery for some
people end up getting neck surgery and others are getting surgery to reduce the size of their chest
but we work on with our patients here in the clinic so that you can avoid having surgery of
any kind whether it's on your neck or somewhere else in your body is increasing the angle of
your collarbones a clavicular angle is what we call it here in the clinic by strengthening your
upper trap muscles so the exercise that you should start out with is reaching up overhead
and shrugging as high as you possibly can and making these shrugging muscles work but do it
in a way that doesn't hurt your neck and that you keep your chin slightly tucked down so that
you're not doing this because as soon as you tip your head out like that chin flies forward you're
compressing the joints in your neck and possibly feeding into the problem you have to keep a little
little bit of a double chin and doing a version of this exercise over time starting out with
no weights just reaching up and then gradually adding weights maybe a one or two pound weight
eventually a five or ten pound weight and then doing heavier weights like maybe even a barbell
is where you need to go in order to build up the strength in the upper trap muscle right here to
hold your collarbones and shoulder blades up so you have enough strength to carry the weight of
your chest around without having to worry about it causing problems in the future I've seen so
many patients that come in saying they want a breast reduction surgery and I have to tell them
if you want to do that for your own Aesthetics totally fine but if you're doing it because of
neck problems or upper back problems that can be addressed doing the right exercises and most
people are told to actually stretch the upper trap muscles because they feel tight but they're
already being stretched and you actually need to strengthen them so they can carry the weight
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