I have an issue with my neck that I have always just lived with and never had checked out by a doctor.
It's a bit like it has a permanent crick in it, my shoulders are permanently tensed and my neck kind of twists off to one side.
I have never been to a doctor about it, although I have been told by a chiropractor and sports masseuse that I also have a twist in my pelvis and that this makes one leg shorter than the other, so there is basically tension throughout my spine which I would imagine exacerbates the neck pain.
I've started to think more about it recently as I go to Counselling and we have discussed the physical abuse I was put through in childhood which involved repeated dragging around by the next - he frequently put me in a headlock and dragged me around by my neck and it's only now that I'm considering that that kind of pressure on a child's neck might cause permanent damage of the kind that I have always dismissed as just being how I am.
Does anyone have any experience of this kind of neck problem or twisted pelvis? Is this caused by physical trauma or just how some people are made?
I could see a doctor, I guess. I always assumed I just had to live with the pain/discomfort and I don't really notice it. But I suppose now I am taking care of myself in other ways I am considering whether I should look into this.