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My Head Feels Like a Million Pounds |
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Many patients who
have been in an accident and sustained a whiplash injury say their head
feels like it weighs a million pounds or that they feel like a weight has
parked itself on their head (they feel compressed). This happens because
the normal weight distribution of the head through the neck is changed.
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In
this normal neck, notice how the weight of the head is equally distributed between the
front and back of the neck vertebrae. The weight that is
distributed toward the front ends up being supported by the
disc,
while the weight that gets shunted to the back is borne by the
facet
joint. In this way, the weight of the head is balanced. |
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When the neck looses it's normal curvature (lordosis), the weight of
the head is transferred more to the discs and less to the facet
joints. This causes the discs to get overloaded a feel like they are
compressed. |
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How do you solve this problem: |
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Does the back of your
head hurt? Do you get headaches?
Here's why... |
