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These 5 Exercises For Cramping Muscles Will Make You Feel Good As New

Nov 20, 2018

Have you ever reached the end of a long day and literally had an ache that caused you not to be able to turn or bend your head or straighten out your back? Wilhelm Reich, a major contributor to 20th-century body-mind sciences, came up with the reasoning for this as energy that’s so bound by muscular contraction that it can’t flow properly through the body. 

Your psychological problems, such as stress and anxiety, manifest themselves as muscle spasms and tension. There are a lot of great tension exercises and exercise classes out there, but the problem is that most people need exercises that take little effort.

Want to know how to remove the blocks in various parts of your body? Want exercises, that take less than five minutes to produce results, that don’t involve complicated positions and movements, and that can be done anywhere and anytime? We’ve got you covered with these 5 exercises:

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1. Back Arcs For Waist And Mid-Back Pain

This is the exercise if you suffer pain in your waist or mid-back. From muscular blockages, herniated discs, pinched nerves and vertebra, spinal curving, and osteochondrosis, there are many disease processes that can cause constant tension in your back muscles. Remove that tension with back-arc exercises:

2. Neck Nods For Upper Back And Neck Pain

Did you know that your neck is one of the first areas to physically react to stress? As your neck tenses, it impacts nerves and important blood vessels carrying nutrients and oxygen to your brain, which in turn can cause everything from more muscle weakness and pain to headaches. Odds are that you’re sitting at your PC or hunched over your mobile device to read this article, and it’s likely that your body mechanics are poor as you do it.

So, first check to see that you’re sitting using good body mechanics:

If the answer to any of these questions is no, then you need to work on your posture. Slouching and/or shoulder tensing, stress, and fatigue can cause a lot of trapped tension in your trapezoid muscles.

 Neck nods will help keep your trapezoid muscles loose and stretched:

Neck and shoulder cramping isn’t uncommon if you don’t warm up and cool down before and after exercise, perform repetitive desk tasks, carry a heavy backpack or purse, and other such activities. The trapezius muscles can develop myositis inflammation and become quite tight, painful, and cramping. Remove neck cramps with this exercise:

3. ‘Say No’ To Facial Tension

Head and facial muscles can carry cramps and tension, too. You might not even feel it, but a look in the mirror can often alert you that it’s there. You may see that frozen grimace or scrunched forehead. While your face itself isn’t likely to hurt, the results of facial tension can be migraines, blurred vision, rapid fatigue, jaw problems, and edema. Carrying facial tension can adversely affect the teeth and constrict the blood vessels nourishing the face with nutrients and oxygen. Hello, premature aging.

Remove facial tension with the ‘say no’ exercise:

4. Releasing Whole-Body Physical Tension

For some people, tension, pains, cramps, aches, and stiffness can spread like wildfire throughout the body as stronger muscles are overused or placed in awkward positions to compensate for weaker muscles and circulation to other areas of the body is impeded by edema. Even internal organs can be affected by pain as pinched vertebrae, for example, cause neurons to carry pain sensations throughout various areas of the body.

Remove this physical tension with exercises like this one that decreases the load on the core muscles of the back and abdomen:

5. Releasing Psychological Tension

Having trapped psychological stress is as dangerous for your mental health as it is your physical health. Many describe it as a constant feeling of light tension, physical fatigue, and emotional discomfort that has the power to progress to anxiety and neurosis if left unchecked. Unfortunately, psychological stress doesn’t dissolve as easily and rapidly as it can appear, and it takes vigilance and immediate recognition to prevent tension from becoming stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders.

This is a good exercise to practice as soon as you sense a stressor causing you psychological tension:

Restore Mental Balance and Restore Energy In Five Minutes

You may not be able to isolate where you’re tense; you just know you feel the mental and physical ramifications of exhaustion sucking your energy levels down and destabilizing your mindset. This is a simple, albeit highly effective, way to release the tension you’re harboring in your lower extremities after a long day of sitting or standing. Bonus: it also helps to improve circulation to lower the load on your heart and prevent issues like varicose veins and edema in your legs and feet.

Here’s what to do:

We’d love to hear how these or any other exercises have helped with your tension. Have these 5 exercises helped you? Feel free to pass this info on to someone that suffers with tension and to your friends who might need some help in this area.

Our content is created to the best of our knowledge, yet it is of general nature and cannot in any way substitute an individual consultation by your doctor. Your health is important to us!