Neck and shoulder tension
The neck and shoulders keep the ledger for busy lives, and they collect interest. We work with desk-born stiffness, headache-adjacent tension, and shoulders that live up around the ears, usually through massage therapy or physiotherapy, sometimes both on one plan.
How it tends to show up
- Shoulders that need reminding they are not earrings
- A neck that turns fine one way and negotiates the other
- Tension that arrives with the workday and forgets to leave with it
- That one spot along the shoulder blade that no stretch has ever reached
How we approach it
The most direct route for muscle-held tension. Maren works deep and specific; Devon works slower and quieter. Both spend real time on the upper back, not just the neck itself.
When tension keeps returning, an assessment often finds the reason elsewhere: how the shoulder blade moves, how the desk is set up, how the load is shared. That is a plan, not just a treatment.
The desk audit we actually recommend
Before buying an ergonomic anything, try the free version for two weeks: screen raised to eye level, elbows supported, and a timer that gets you upright for two minutes every half hour. The best chair posture is the next posture; necks are built for variety, not for any single correct position.
If two honest weeks of that changes nothing, that is genuinely useful information, and exactly the kind of detail worth bringing to your first appointment.
Often related
A plan beats a search spiral.
Book a first visit and leave with an honest read on what is going on, in plain language, on paper.
Rather talk it through first? (250) 555-0147