I have a very high tolerance to pain. I’ve broken bones and set them myself with no pain killers………

BUT: When the muscles in my neck and shoulder tighten up and start putting strain on the tendons supporting my neck/head/shoulders/etc…. I feel like I’m being stabbed over and over in the neck and temple and shoulder until it finally decides to go away…… I become completely useless and can’t even think.

These are the things that seem to help:
INTENSE windmill training. I mean INTENSE!
Buy yourself a set of 4-10lb kettle weigh or so depending on your shoulder strength.
My personal opinion is: don’t’ even start with anything under 6lb as a male or 4lb as a woman, even if you have never done it before and you ‘feel week’. You’d be surprised how quickly your muscles will build up to support that weight. ; It is low impact, so you are not going to hurt yourself.

Now, onto the fun~

Grab the kettle weights in both hands and go into ‘jeebus pose’.
This is where your feet are just about lined up with your shoulders and your holding the kettle weights up as close as possible to parallel to the floor. Lemme try to find a pic. one sec….. I couldn’t find a good pic so I’ll draw one. (0.o)

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I’m an awesome artist (LOL)

No. This is not a man with a jet pack, as it would at first glance seem.
This is "some dude" standing with his legs shoulder width apart and his arms out wide holding kettle weights.

For neck, shoulder, and spinal/disc problems (including migraine /cluster headaches/fibromlyalgea , etc. This is the ultimate plan for spine pain. You just have to keep up with it. 4 days a week. Spread out.
If I didn’t keep up with this I would be in a constant state of extreme intolerable pain. I was doing this with no weights originally and even that helped.

I have a disk bulging really by in my neck an another near my shoulder. They both have a tendency to pinch nerves. NASTY STYLE. When my muscles in my shoulders and neck start to tighten up (usually due to stress), nerves get pinched all the way from the vertebrae near my shoulder all the way up my neck to my jaw.  It’s literally like being stabbed in my shoulder, neck, and jaw over and over and over until I can finally get it to clear up. If I felt like that on a daily basis I think I could consider offing myself.

SO, back to the basic 😀
(on are kettle training days, off are non-training days)

Monday:      on
Tuesday:      on
Wednesday: off
Thursday:    on
Friday:        on
Saturday:    off
Sunday:      off

1. Start doing forward windmills, see if you can get up to 50. 

2. Take a 5 minute break then grab the weigts back up.

3. See if how many reverse windmills you can do (the opposite direction). If you can do 50 right away you may need a higher weight, as 50 reps is what you should be working up toward. I actually use 15lb weights when I do these exercise now, so don’t stick to a weight rule. Whatever works the best for you. 😀

4. You want to repeat this as often as possible throughout the day unless it is causing you any pain, then stop immediately. If you are doing these exercises correctly, the pain and throbbing should improve, nor get worse.

Low weight muscle stability training woks best 2 days on, 1 day off, 2 days on…. and then a ‘weekend’ of two days when you recover and eat healthy and rest.

If you keep this up for 5 of 6 sets, the muscle that is pinching the nerve gets tired. It can no longer pinch and squeeze the nerve so hard, which means you get relief.

FORTHCOMING:

More at home exercises and tricks to make you feel less like you’ve been run over by a dumpster. Stay tuned, kiddies! 😀