Post by bibliotekaren » Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:52 pm

This question has been on my mind for a while as well. While negative for cervical spondyloarthropathy, I do have degenerative joint disease at C6-7 (this is in reference to other thread Cheer posted). And, Zap, I haven't had a normal curve in my neck for years now. Even though I was a very active person for years, I had to often seek relief for suboccipital/cervical woes throughout the years.



Both my own interventions (stretching, yoga, altering my posture) and those of others (chiropractic, massage, myofascial release, cranial-sacral, polarity) helped a lot. It makes sense that these interventions could have been releasing myofascial restrictions creating or, more likely, worsening a stenosis. Of course, depending on the where and severity of the stenosis. I dissected cadavers in college many years ago and remember being pretty overwhelmed by how dense the neck area was and all that was going on in there.



The key for me has been that the amount of relief gained by any of this is less and less now as my muscles strangle me. I showed some of the CCSVI material to my chiropractor who does rather non-traditional myofascial work on me (haven't done rack-em-crack-em chiros for years now). She thought it was brilliant and very applicable, at least for me.



So, maybe I'm mixing other things with posture, but I view them in a similar light with the CCSVI glasses on. Oh, and I'm an inclined bed person too just not anywhere as high as recommended!