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If only one shoulder keeps getting stiff and sore

Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin
의료 감수 Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

If only one shoulder keeps getting stiff and sore, it may not be the shoulder but a problem of the body's balance.

If you always carry your bag on the same side, or have a long-standing habit of leaning to one side when you sit, the body twists to one side. Then that burden concentrates on one shoulder and the neck.

  • Always the same side gets stiff and knotted
  • Even after it is released, it comes back to the same spot within a few days

In this case, rather than releasing only the stiff shoulder, you have to look at the balance of the whole body posture together to break the repetition.

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Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin

Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

A graduate of the College of Korean Medicine at Kyung Hee University, with master's and doctoral degrees in pathology — the mechanisms of disease — from its graduate school. Later served as a research professor in the university's Herbology department, studying medicinal substances. Studying both disease and medicine from both sides is the foundation of this practice: explaining "why a given medicine works for a given illness" in the language of both pathology and pharmacology. Explains autonomic, chronic, and intractable conditions — and structural problems of the body — in the language of modern science, and proposes treatment matched to the cause. Has taught prescribing and clinical practice to Korean medicine doctors for over ten years, and is a co-author of "Korean Medicine, Explained by Korean Medicine Doctors," selected for the 2018 Sejong Books list (general category).

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