Too much time at the PC or sitting with a bad posture? Here are the best remedies to say goodbye to neck and back pain!
When I get up all crumpled from the chair, with red eyes and broken bones for too many hours in front of the video, the jokes of friends come to mind: "Nice life you lead!" the most popular, "If you need a hand I'll come" or, "How lucky you are, how I'd like to do your job". Are you sure? Writing about cooking, eating out for work practically every day, often on trains and planes away, has its side effects - and I'm not talking about extra pounds. Being a food journalist is certainly not a tiring job, but "eating for work ”means nice restaurants and cool trips, usually alone or even worse with people you wouldn't want to see, never a free evening, bad dishes, hours of late sleep to catch up on the plane, and hours standing on heels. Then you go home, to write, bent over the keyboard.
Sleeping in Economy or sitting in a chair for like 12 hours leaves no way out: I get up with my neck b-l-o-c-c-a-t-o and a kind of crunch in my right shoulder (at 35, not 70). And there is worse, because the presentations produce what I dubbed the "Power Point Syndrome", a pain that spreads from the arm up to the neck; I have often tried different remedies, but the pain often remains.
The neighbors will think I'm crazy because I wander around the house doing stretching moves and rolling my neck like the Exorcist. So I decided to try thermotherapy: the heat should relieve my pain, but also go beyond the symptoms, bringing more oxygen to the tissues, thanks to the vasodilation action, it should facilitate muscle relaxation !. They had told me about different types of thermotherapy: Bier ovens, infrared equipment, shortwave and ultra-shortwave devices. But I decided to buy some simple bands that heat up specifically for the neck and I wore them. In a short time they become hot, not lukewarm, hot, so much so that after a few hours I no longer have pains and I move, and the effect of the heat continues even after taking them off.When my partner comes home at midnight after a day in the kitchen , serving at the pass or standing with clients, I know I have found the solution to the evening lament caused by chronic back pain - which is common to all colleagues and friends who do this job. Being a chef for real has little to do with what you see on TV and muscle and joint pains are the norm, as much as an appetizer and dessert ... Since the wraps can also be worn at night, I wear my new discovery on the painful area, challenging a questioning face and a childish whim that only a man can produce at nearly 40. It's morning, everything is silent, then the revenge arrives: “That thing with the band ... do they sell it in the pharmacy?” Margo 1 - zero back pain.
