Home remedies · Everyday life & travel
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Raise the device to eye level rather than lowering the head. Every ten minutes look up and gently draw the chin back for five seconds. When reading lying down, support the arm.
The further the head hangs forward, the greater the weight the neck muscles must hold — at 45 degrees a multiple of it.
Posture alone does not explain every neck pain, and sitting upright without a break is not the answer either. Changing position is.
Neck pain radiating into the arm, with numbness, weakness, or after a fall, needs assessing.
Have it assessed: heat with confusion, dry hot skin or clouded consciousness — that is more than exhaustion. A one-sided swollen leg after a long journey. And anything new that does not go away within a few days.