Pinched nerve | repeat episode?

Where? How did it first happen?

I pinched one in my neck back in high school. Ever since I have had it happen a couple of times in the same spot.

I have noticed it almost always occurs (for me) if I am looking up and lifting/pushing something straight up in front of me. Last 2 times it happened, I was pushing up on a prop blade on a C-130 and the other time I was going to throw my toddler up in the air playing with him.

Could be a number of things from stress you carry in your posture, to where your computer monitors sit, to just how much rest and sleep you get.

If I had your problem, I would go to a good chiro or an Airrosti clinic and have them do some physical tests. What we see in the gym is that most of the time the pain is downstream of the dysfunction. Repeat episode, to me, indicates a cumulative effect of something that’s going on daily.

I have 2 herniated discs in my neck. C5 & C6 I think. When they flare up it pinches the nerves going down my left arm. It’s not only hurts like hell but it makes my arm feel like I’ve hit my funny bone 24/7. The only thing that helps, barring surgery, is copious amounts of anti inflammatory.