Sorry to hear about your trapped nerve. Hope your not self employed as I know how that sort of thing can damage your finances. I had an minor foot op last year and was then told "Oh by the way don't put any weight on it and no driving for 4 weeks at least". Luckily I had some off site work that I could do.

You could try Alexander Technique. Its very helpful with problems brought on by poor posture. I used to get a very stiff neck from motorcycling and found it very helpful for that.
Nick

>Hello
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>I've just been off for the past 2 weeks with a trapped nerve in my neck and, because I just couldn't DO anything I spent a lot of time stuffed with cushions, watching day-time TV (much of it US films and TV series).
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>As far as I can tell just about every American pronounces "alright" like "ah-eet". Is this true?
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>I found, to my amusement that "Antartica" is pronounced "Ant-ardica" (The "d" is an approximation of the US "lazy t") which sounds weird, as we say "An-tartica". This reminds me of a few years ago when I took my young daughter to the London Planetarium: she tickled me by saying "planet-arium" (we'd say "plane-tarium"), but now I wonder if that's how Americans would say that too.
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>On the subject of trapped nerve - I'd say that medically this has been the worst thing that has ever happened to me, and it's persisted, throught 2 acute stages, since mid-Dec 2005.
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>It's caused: extreme, painful spasm in the biceps, triceps, trapezium, and the muscles of the forearm, as well as the feeling that I'd knocked my "funny bone", along with numbness of certain fingers of my hand. Sleep sometimes has been nigh impossible and the only relief is from complete immobilisation of the arm and resting it (hard to do when the whole arm is spasming), and inclining the neck to "gap" the trapped nerve temporarily. When there was no pain I still got pins and needles in the whole arm, like I'd been sleeping on it and woken up with a "dead arm". Still only c. 80% cured but I can't take any more time off.
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>The doctors, physio' and osteopath that I've seen have told me that this is a common complaint in desk jockeys like us, esp. if you drive. I was wondering if any, and how many of you guys have ever had this.
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>Terry