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Gentle treatments for pain in the neck

Fit to Farm: Built-up tensions come compliments of the season

Heading toward year-end, people unknowingly tense up against the cold and busyness, causing neck pain that can often be treated with appropriate support and gentle mobility, athletic therapist Kathlyn Hossack says.

Man breathing fresh air near the mountains

Simple ways to relieve tension

Fit to Farm: Expectations of stress tee up the body’s tension response — which then sometimes sticks around longer than we need

Farmers and farm workers will often feel tension in their muscles, whether it’s from physical exertion, stress, or even changes in the weather — and treatment of tension can start simple at home.


Tension can stem from physical
exertion, mental and emotional
stress or even uncontrollable shifts
in the weather. While tension is
largely unavoidable, there are a
few things we can use to help
ease tension in our bodies.

Tips to relieve tension

How breathing exercises and slow movements can help

One of the most common complaints that brings people to see me is tension somewhere — sometimes everywhere — in the body. All tension, regardless of the area it is felt, is a reaction from our neurological state. Our nervous system receives signals from our body, which interprets our internal and external environments. One of […] Read more