Headaches are a big thing. Many people are sitting behind a computer all day long and not taking time to do simple exercises every two hours to give their muscles a break. They re punching away for hours, looking forward, answering the phone and commuting. Those things lay down trigger points and they re patterns that need to be interrupted. So I see a lot of patients for upper back, neck and shoulder pain and a lot of it has to do with lifestyle.
Some people take longer than others to feel better, depending on what they ve gone through.
I ve had a patient who had back pain for 33 years. This, of course, took a lot of undoing. Now I only see her once a month. When asked how often she normally sees a patient, she said five or seven times. Initially I saw one gentlemen with bursitis in his right shoulder several times in a row.