Stiff neck

Trigger points should be at the top of the list during any examination for neck pain and stiffness. When healthcare practitioners have had adequate training and experience, trigger points are easy to locate and treat. In fact, there are ways to treat them yourself quite effectively. In The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook, nationally certified massage therapist Clair Davies simplifies Travell and Simons’s extensive research into myofascial pain and makes it accessible to the layman. When trigger points are the cause of your neck pain and stiffness, you can gain significant relief using safe, precise methods of self-applied trigger point massage.

There are a lot of treatments for stiff neck. But, the best way is prevention. Heat pad, stretching and massage will help ease the pain. To know how, please check a couple of posts I've responded on other discussions. Good luck.