Every once in a while I forget I’m not supposed to lift anything heavy. After all, this not-lifting thing is only a couple of years old, since my whiplash injury in a car accident on Springbank Drive in February 2011. I’ve taken good care of it and recovered quite nicely.
And then I foolishly dragged a wooden trunk up the stairs a couple of weeks ago. Don’t ask me what I was thinking because I wasn’t! And the next morning, I was thinking I was back to square one.
Long story short, I had some therapy for it (massage and chiropractic) and was enduring the requisite headaches and shoulder aches when I realized I had a major dentist appointment. Great! May as well throw it on the pile, eh? Thinking about my comfort, I took a little pillow with me and tucked it under my neck for the nearly two-hour ordeal. To my amazement, when I got up, my neck didn’t hurt, my headache was gone and I felt back to normal. I didn’t expect it to last but it did, right through the next day when I had another appointment with my chiropractor. I told him about my self-healing method and he told me about a pillow called Therapuetica. He uses one and swears by it. So I picked one up and it’s just the ticket.
Strange looking thing isn’t it? The end squares are for side sleeping and the middle is for laying on your back. The point of it is to support the neck. It comes in several sizes and costs about $80. It’s not sham-friendly but a king-sized pillowcase covers it. So far it’s doing the trick for what I’m told is a neck that will never be the same.