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Neck/Shoulder Pain

Which Muscles Power Your 20,000 Daily Breaths?

Here’s a number worth sitting with: most adults take somewhere in the region of 20,000 breaths a day. Now here’s the question that follows from it. Which muscles are performing them? If the answer is mainly your diaphragm, that’s a large workload distributed to the muscle designed for it. If a meaningful share of the work is being done by the muscles at the front and side of your neck, those muscles are performing thousands of extra contractions daily — on top of holding your head up, turning it, and stabilizing your shoulder.

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Neck/Shoulder Pain

6 Essential Muscles That Cause Pain Elsewhere

One of the more frustrating features of neck and shoulder pain is that the spot that hurts is frequently not the spot causing it. People spend months rubbing a shoulder, stretching a neck, or icing a headache while the muscle actually generating the symptom sits somewhere they’ve never thought about — and it goes untreated because nobody looked there.
Muscles refer pain in reasonably consistent patterns. Those patterns have been mapped in detail, and knowing them is one of the more useful things a manual therapist brings to an assessment. Here are the six that account for a large share of what walks through the door.

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Health & Wellness

Why Nerve Health Matters More Than You Think: Everyday Habits That Support Comfortable Movement

When people think about staying healthy, they often focus on their muscles, joints, heart, or bones. While all of those systems play an important role, there’s another part of the body that’s working around the clock and rarely gets the attention it deserves: your nervous system. At Castrell Neuromuscular Therapy, we understand that nerve-related discomfort isn’t always just about the nerves themselves. Often, the muscles and connective tissues surrounding those nerves play a significant role. By improving the health and mobility of these soft tissues through Neuromuscular Therapy, we help create an environment that supports more comfortable movement and better overall function.

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Health & Wellness

The Truth About Neurofeedback: Why High Performers Experience Brain Overload and What They Can Do About It

From the moment the day begins, the brain is making decisions, filtering information, managing stress, and responding to constant demands. Emails, meetings, deadlines, family responsibilities, notifications, and endless streams of information all require energy. At Castrell Neuromuscular Therapy, neurofeedback is viewed as a strategy for optimizing the system behind decision-making and daily performance – not simply treating isolated symptoms.

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