Question
i had surgery on my neck oct. 25 2011. c5 disc was replaced with an articial bone and a plate n neck. i still have severe headaches and neck pain. i went through therapy several times. still no help. please help me relieve my pain.

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Lawrence Gold Somatics  

Hanna Somatic Educatio   Hello, Jeanette,

Sorry to hear of your condition.

Headaches and neck pain commonly come from contracted neck muscles -- which no surgery can correct, even if it corrects for the effects of tight neck muscles -- disc overcompression and degeneration.  The fact that you needed disc surgery strongly suggests that your headaches are of this kind.

Please see my write-up on headaches and neck pain:

http://somatics.com/headaches.htm
http://somatics.com/whiplash.htm

They give you an understanding that typical therapy lacks -- and a direction to get relief.