Should I or should I not?

My neck is feeling better, it's still very tight espechially around my left upper sholder area. I couldn't work out yesterday because of it. I feel better today but am not sure if I should go ahead and get on my treadmill or not. I have no Idea if it would make the area worse or not. I would appriciate any opinions on this because I just got back to working out again and now because of my neck I'm not sure what the best thing to do is. Thank you in advance!!!

I do my daily walk of 1.4 miles every night with my dog and the only thing that keeps me from doing this is a lightening storm...or when I aggravated my herniation in my lumbar area so badly that I couldn't move for a week. Otherwise...walking gently is about the best possible exercise you can do because it's non "jarring" to the body...

I also do light stretching each day with these different colored bands that I got during physical therapy...and I do a am/pm Yoga for about 10 minutes each time.

All of this has been approved by my Neurosurgeon as there is a big difference between having some soreness or actually doing anything that can "injure" me.

And I know that you are doing so great being off the pain meds....but it may be to where you have a muscle relaxer to keep around for those really bad days to just take when needed. And I apologize if you already have this and we talked about it before! LOL

The key I have to realize when walking and throughout the day actually is to BREATH better...I tend to take shallow breaths and this has me more tense than I need to be...So practicing my breathing during the day has been helpful...

And then the last thing to do after you do your exercise is to put on a ThermaCare heat patch to help the spasms.....(If that is what they are and it's not an actual "injury" that has inflammation. These work wonders!

Ahh..thanks for explaining more...As long as you don't have any actual herniated discs or something that could be injured more by running..then I can't see it hurting your muscles any...

I can't run because of all my spine issues....so that is why I enjoy taking my doggy for a walk outside each night. I have a bunch of audiobooks on my phone and go through about 3 each month. This makes the walk go by very quickly!

So..as long as your Drs. have ok'd running then you should be fine and if you are a bit sore...Then taking a nice long hot shower afterwards or doing some good stretches will help as well...

Don't swing your arms when you're walking. It causes me a great deal of pain there.