I Think I Pulled A Muscle In My Neck

If you have a massage head on your shower, try using that, but make sure you don't put it directly onto the arteries going up your neck. you could also try that heat pack along your shoulder and neck as it may be a muscle that goes right down your shoulder that is strained. If not, dampen a hand towel with hot water, put it into a plastic bag then wrap that in a face cloth, and put that on your neck as a temporary hot pack

Heat works best in the first 24 hours. AFter that, cold helps more! To get heat to stay on, moisten a handtowel or somthing and place it in the microwave. Make it rather hot. Then place that on the area (this must be over a shirt or something so as to not burn the skins) The combincaiton of the heat and moisture is great as it penetrates teh skin better. Some physicians recommend alternating heat and cold. When you start the cold packs, do remember it is 20 minutes on and then 20 minutes off, so that little constricted blood vessels have a chance to refill! The cold helps to remove inflammation at the area and thusly reduce swelling around the inflammed pulled muscle or whatever you injured! Of course, an antiinflammatory such as Motrin helps in addition to the heat/cold.

heat is what you need to put on it, either a hot water bottle or perhaps a heating pad...try that and see if it works.

Just so coincidental we seem to have some coincidences. I think I have sprained my shoulder two weeks ago. My instructor has "fixed" it for me and I do not feel the pain. However, on the next morning, the pain came from the neck. Being a Reiki channel myself, I reiki myself throughout the night and it seems ok. I complemented it with cold water shower on the shoulder and neck. It seems fine until 2 days ago. I did some neck exercise yesterday morning and this morning, I nearly cannot turn my head. I attribute it to the rainy season these 2 days. I just rub whatever balm I can find. lol. Hope it will be ok tomorrow morning. And thanks for posting this discussion, I guess I can get some tips from this discussion too :p

the best thing is that while sleeping use a long narrow pillow that would just fit between ur neck. If you give proper rest to your neck i think it will get fine. don't strain the neck too much as it will increase the pain. If nothing works, pls go to a doctor. Take care

Mi Madmommy :). Sounds prteey posile you've pulled a muscle in your neck doing the furniture. A good advice from Denmark. Try get hold on some tiger balsam or pure mint oil. Dont know about your place but here we would get it at the pharmasy. If you get hold on some, use just a tiny bit, as it is pretty strong, and smear it on the sore part of your neck. Both will warm up the muscles in your neck and make it more flexible again. Hope you get better soon :)

Hi maddyssmommy i see this was made 3days ago so i hope you are doing better now .Reading some of the comments they have said pretty much the same i was thinking accept for the post by worldwise.A pinch nerve i hope you see a doctor if its that.I hope you get well soon.Take care.

My husband often suffer from neck and back pain too. I suggest using YOKO-YOKO, a type of massage hot oil to ease the pain around your shoulder. It really helps, you can try it. In my place this product can be found in almost every grocery stores, even in rural areas. I hope the product is within your easy reach. Good luck.

Aww sweetheart I am sorry to hear that - it is an awful place to pull a muscle - you never realise how much you move your neck until it feels that bad! I know I am a bit late into the discussion - I haven't really been here for a couple of days so I hope that you are already feeling better! If not heat is good but so is cold - a bit of heat alternated with cold can help! You can either use heat pads and ice packs, or heat and freeze sprays! If it is not getting any better in the next day or two I would say that a visit to your doctor may be in order! xxx

I posted the discussion a few days ago, maddysmommy, and I did receive a lot of good suggestions. But, in your case I think you should see a doctor. It could be a pinched nerve. If that's the case massage won't help.

Hello there maddysmom! I am so sorry to hear that you are experiencing neck pains. As you are aware I am not a doctor…lol..but I do want to share my opinion with you. Here in our custom we call the neck pain that you are experiencing (lengai). I am only assuming that this is what you have because you mentioned that you woke up this morning with the neck pain. If that is the case then it was most likely caused by your sleeping position on your pillow. Although you may have felt really comfortable when you lied down to sleep, you neck was not. The only way we get rid of the (lengai) neck pain is by sleeping two nights without a pillow and lying on our stomach. I really hope this helps you, because it is all I can share. Another thing you should not use baby oil, coconut oil works much better in easing the pain but you should not massage it, just put the coconut oil and let it be, I know that the pain is too much at times but sometimes if you massage it, it can actually get worse. Good Luck, I hope you feel better soon!

I had a pinched nerve in my neck several months ago and it was terrible. I don't even know how I did it. I was uncomfortable every way I tried to sit or lay. Maybe you have a pinched nerve. I don't think there is anything a doctor can do, but don't quote me on that. I used Biofreeze and it helped some and I used a heating pad at times. you have to get Biofreeze from a doctor( had a sample from a friend), but I think there is a version in Wal-Mart that says to compare it to Biofreeze. I hope you feel better soon!:)

Hi!Well, if it is only a Muscle-Pull, Rub VOVERAN-GEl in the affected area, & leave it for sometime.After an hour, dip a towel in hot water & wipe a few times dipping in hot water alternately.After half an hour, take some rock-salt & bundle it in a muslin cloth, heat it in a pan &alternately keep on the affected area.After an hour,rub with some ice-cubes & wipe dry. Remember to keep a proper pillow when you sleep.I am sure this would really work or else you may have to see a DOCTOR. Thanks, www.creatingcolourfulfuture.com

go to the doctor!!