One of the biggest barriers to living neck-pain free is not having a complete understanding of the problem. Once you understand your pain and realize that you have control of your healing, you will be on the path to recovery from debilitating neck problems!

Shockingly, one of the first things people assume when the pain gets really bad is that surgery is imminent. But even a doctor will tell you surgery for neck pain should be considered an absolute last resort. It adds unnecessary layers of healing, additional scar tissue that can cause neck pain from complications, and can make the problem worse than it was originally.

There is a growing movement among physical therapists who believe that neck-pain patients who take on healing themselves will not only shorten their current occurrences of neck pain, but will reduce the likelihood and severity of future episodes, as well as reducing the need for surgery.

There are simple ways to approach relieving neck pain that will not drain your back account and will put the solution entirely in your hands — without having to have someone cut you!

That’s not to say that major injury with extensive damage won’t require a doctor’s hand in repair. But you have to realize that even in those situations your body still has to use its own systems to heal from whatever is done.

With the neck being associated with so many simple movements during the day, the pain can feel permanent and impossible to address. It’s so easy for every little movement to light up that chronic pain in your neck.

Neck pain relief can be powerfully attained in a number of unobtrusive and natural ways. New approaches to healing incorporate an easy, comprehensive approach that begins with understanding your neck pain and how all your body’s systems interact to affect it.

Charles Gaudet, a lifelong athlete and chronic back pain sufferer, has inspired thousands of people with his story of recovery from debilitating back problems.

He has spent much of his adult life researching and identifying ways for back and neck pain sufferers to heal themselves, take their lives back and live healthy, active and happy. And there are ways to do it effectively and naturally as detailed in his widely popular book, “Powerful Strategies for Back and Neck Pain Relief,” which chronicles his miracle recovery throug a step-by-step approach to healing and taking back your life.

“One of my most powerful realizations, and perhaps my greatest gift to myself was realizing that I don’t have to live my life in pain,” Gaudet states in an interview. “There are some common lifestyle choices that people make that actually inhibit their healing – and, most of the time, it’s because they don’t realize that there choices are actually contributing to their back and neck pain. Sometimes, a simple shift in the way that they move, eat or even sleep can reduce and/or totally eliminate pain forever.”

The beauty of Gaudet’s approach is in the understanding that neck pain relief has to be complete and involves approaching the problem from a whole-body / whole person standpoint.

Gaudet takes a three-pronged approach that makes the circle complete

• Physical: Understand your injury or problem. Understand pain and its role in healing. Yes — pain plays a crucial role in healing and understanding progress as you improve. Gaudet leads you through a complete understanding of the physiology of the back and neck and how pain works. He also helps you through amazing techniques for viewing pain as a partner in healing.  

• Emotional:  One of the biggest barriers to healing is resigning yourself to a life of pain. Attitude is at the heart of every miracle recovery story you hear in life. Healing neck pain is no different. Gaudet leads you through the creating of the right emotional approach to neck pain and relief, even looking at how emotional health can often be the cause of chronic neck pain. His strategies are powerful and life affirming, and these strategies have joyfully impacted the lives of thousands.   

• Nutritional: If you’re not feeding your body the things it needs to create the chemical resources it needs to heal and rebuild tissue, you could actually be making things worse! The body is a complex collection of chemically operated systems that rely on the correct balance of fuels to make them work properly. Gaudet gives simple instructions to eating the right things that will make the body heal faster, more effectively and more efficiently, and remain healthier longer, helping avoid chronic neck pain in the future!

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