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Many Japanese have stiff shoulders and it is said to be Japanese women's NO.1 symptom. Still shoulder is caused by poor blood circulation, insufficient supply of oxygen and nutrition, and accumulation of waste material. Severe stiffness and heaviness around the neck and shoulders can trigger headache, numbness or stiffness in the arm, diminished concentration, nausea, etc.

This is an inflammation around the shoulder joint. It develops during midlife. In medical terms it is called periarthritis humeroscapularis, the cause of which is not clarified yet. Because the structure of shoulder joint is complicated to maintain a wide range of motion, shoulder joint is easy to have inflammation.

By bad posture during sleep or forced motion of the head, the muscle in the neck has a kink with the pain similar to sore muscles.

Headache and eyestrain occurs by many causes. Do you have any burden, fatigue or stress? Care for the body condition on a daily basis.

Lower Back Pain and Lumbosacral Strain occur by problems in backbone, muscle, ligament, intervertebral disk or tendons. The causes of the problems in the back area may be continuous bad posture, sudden motion in the bad posture, intense exercise, hard labor, aging, disease, mental stress, accident, etc.

Arthralgia occurs in the lower back, shoulders and limbs mainly. People in the middle and advanced age often have knee pain. When you have a knee pain, sitting straight with the legs tucked underneath or going up and down the stairs is very difficult to do. The main cause is decrease of bone density with age. Because the bone is weakened, burden to the joint increases. In case of the bow-legs or the knock knee, all burden concentrating on the outer side or inner side of the knee encourages pain to occur.

The main causes of leg cramps are problems in metabolism, water balance, electrolyte density, etc. The muscle with a cramp shrinks, and the regional, bulging muscle is very firm. Muscle spasms last from a few seconds to a couple of minutes. After excessive exercise or hard swimming, leg cramp is easy to occur. It frequently occurs during sleep too.

You may feel heavy in the feet when you keep standing or stay in the same posture for many hours. This is because physical inactivity or insufficient exercise of the ankles and calves causes accumulation of waste material.

Tennis elbow occurs due to extra burden on the elbow by playing tennis or other sports. Accumulated fatigue in housework or lifestyle habit as well as weakening tendon by menopause or aging may cause tennis elbow also. Ache is hardly felt by bending or straightening of the elbow, but it is felt by lifting or holding something heavy. When the symptom gets worse, stronger ache with throb may occur even at rest.

There is a case that muscular strain of the shoulder, the arm or the elbow may cause the pain in the wrist. Attention shall be paid to overdoing of exercise as well as lack of exercise. Stretch is effective for enhancing blood circulation and warming muscles.