Sports injury clinic and neck pain

Sports injuries and postural pain

Cycling is a low impact sports and does not tend to create the same type of over use injuries like Ostearthritis runing even though the legs are the put under a lot of stress however neck, shoulder and upper body pain is more often reported due to bad riding posture. It is generally an over use or muscle overloading injury caused by holding the head in an extended position whilst riding with drop handlebars.

A simle way to help with this pain problem is to stretch the neck muscles whenever you stop and lift your head whilst riding, pull the shoulders backand stretch the pectoral muscles. In short giving the muscles on the back of your neck a rest!

Below are a few simple stretches to help.
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