<story><title>The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck</title><url>https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2017/08/10/creepiest-cycling-condition-shermers-neck/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nope96</author><text>I ended up with a devastating sudden neck injury that seemed computer related. Had noticed when I&amp;#x27;d go to turn my neck, occasionally it would not actually turn, and I&amp;#x27;d hear a &amp;#x27;crunch&amp;#x27; noise. No pain. One day, it did hurt, and for the next year I could not really sit or stand without feeling extreme neck fatigue after a few minutes.&lt;p&gt;10 years later I have not fully recovered. Doctors couldn&amp;#x27;t help (or see anything wrong on MRI), but said a lifetime of sitting in front of a screen 8 to 12 hours a day was probably the culprit. Solution was, unfortunately, to quit working. I&amp;#x27;m typing this sideways laying down on a couch. If your neck starts to act funny, give it a rest!&lt;p&gt;(Building some contraption with PVC pipes as in this article had not occurred to me, but it seems like it would just lead to other muscles being overused, instead, with new injury somewhere else eventually)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodah</author><text>I had a similar experience getting out of the military. I had a known back injury, but nobody could tell why it was manifesting the way it was. I eventually ended up at a sleep doctor because I refused to be put on opioids but could not sleep. I was put on Gabapentin, or rather over-dosed as this use was off-label. The physical therapist noticed a change in my range, and that my back could suddenly &amp;quot;pop&amp;quot; and release tension. Three years later a chiropractor discovered the source of my sciatic nerve pain: a fractured disk that had healed over my sciatic nerve that caused all the rest of my muscles to tense up. My life is mostly normal now that I have some tools to cope with the discomfort when it creeps up, allowing me to head off any potential pain.&lt;p&gt;I guess my point in sharing this is that nerve pain can be &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; hard for doctors to diagnose, much less treat, but don&amp;#x27;t give up.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck</title><url>https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2017/08/10/creepiest-cycling-condition-shermers-neck/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nope96</author><text>I ended up with a devastating sudden neck injury that seemed computer related. Had noticed when I&amp;#x27;d go to turn my neck, occasionally it would not actually turn, and I&amp;#x27;d hear a &amp;#x27;crunch&amp;#x27; noise. No pain. One day, it did hurt, and for the next year I could not really sit or stand without feeling extreme neck fatigue after a few minutes.&lt;p&gt;10 years later I have not fully recovered. Doctors couldn&amp;#x27;t help (or see anything wrong on MRI), but said a lifetime of sitting in front of a screen 8 to 12 hours a day was probably the culprit. Solution was, unfortunately, to quit working. I&amp;#x27;m typing this sideways laying down on a couch. If your neck starts to act funny, give it a rest!&lt;p&gt;(Building some contraption with PVC pipes as in this article had not occurred to me, but it seems like it would just lead to other muscles being overused, instead, with new injury somewhere else eventually)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prox</author><text>Have you as a therapy tried strengthening  your core&amp;#x2F;serratus muscles as a therapy?</text></comment>