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At times, you may wake up in morning and feel pain in the neck and shoulder area. Your arm may feel a tingling sensation or even as though it has fallen asleep. The main cause of the pain and tingling sensations in the upper back and neck are usually a poor sleeping posture during the night. Sounds simple, usually simple is best. Many people have had their neck or arm in the wrong position overnight and wake with the pain. Some may even experience  Upper Middle Back Pain  caused by injury during the day and not even know, because the injury occurred during an event that was non threating. A child jumps in your arms or you pick up a bag of groceries and ever so slightly strain the muscles at the top of the shoulders close to the base of the neck. During the night the muscles and ligaments tighten up and swell somewhat, this is what causes the pain in the morning. Also, it may be caused by playing a sport during the day and maybe straining to hit a ball or shoot a basket, pos...

Q:   I live with chronic pain and have used a narcotic patch for relieve. My pain was decreased, but the narcotic made me sick and I was apathetic. I just wanted to lie around all day and do nothing. So, I took myself off of the patch and found out that I was "hooked" and so I went through withdrawals to get off of it. My options as far as anyone can give me are constant pain or addiction. I don't like either of these choices but am at a standstill as to what I can do. All I want to do now is to create health for myself. Any ideas? Thank you so very much. C. M.   A:   Thanks to the 20th century physician, Rene Leriche, we now recognize chronic pain as a particular disease state different from other diseases. Who’d have thought it would take until the 1900’s to catch up to what Socrates knew as early as the sixth century B.C. E? He said, “there is no illness of the body apart from the mind” What was once a dem...