Why do I have neck pain? If you got up one morning, and your neck was hurting, what has happened was that you actually tore a muscle located in or around your neck area.
During that evening of sleep, you placed your head in such a position that it was not used to. When you do something, you don't normally do, your body's first impulse is to spasm as to protect itself, because it's not sure what's going on, and things you are going to hurt. You spooked your body causing it to spasm and in the process, it tore a muscle located in or around your neck area.
You frightened your body initiating your self-preservation mode response. This time there was no space in that area because the neck was twisted, your neck spasm, but a spasm enlarges an area and there was no space there, due to the twisted muscle, and it tore itself. Just so you know, this should not normally happen.
Twisting your neck when you were sleeping should not initiate your self-preservation mode response. There is a good chance that there are other areas of your body that are too tight, clamping down on the muscles that reach up to the neck area. When a muscle goes in the spasm, the muscle enlarges by bringing pain producing chemicals there.
To prevent it or limit the use of that area until the body heals itself, it is the pain producing chemicals that is causing that soreness feeling. The best thing to do is to put space, and flexibility there, and to apply ice to that area.
The chemicals created by the muscle spasm is normally there to help you. But, the chemicals themselves slow down the healing process. By applying ice, it will push the spasm chemicals away and help allow the healing process.
When the neck area comes back to room temperature, it would be a good time to put space and flexibility there by doing gentle stretching, and to repeat this process as often as possible.
You can see a complete video on how to apply ice to the body and to review the video on what should I do when I first get injured by reviewing the Grip Method Video 1. By the way, it's free. Even if you feel better by the third day, you still need to put space and flexibility there.
There is a good chance that other areas maybe involve, such as your chest, shoulders, upper, mid, and lower back, they are all too tight. These other areas are parts of the body directly affect the neck area.
You should concentrate your efforts after relieving your neck to put flexibility and space in those areas also. And how do you do this? By getting a therapeutic massage, stretching, or any process that will put space or flexibility there, that was originally there before you had the problem.
It is a good idea to take corrective measures as soon as possible because you don't want your body to think that the pain belongs there. We do this by not doing anything about it. It's also called non-action.
The longer it is there, the more body memory it has, the more body memory it has, the longer it will take to get the problem or pain out of the body. Often neck issues correct themselves because your daily activities move your neck to teach the neck area, what expect -- what you are actually expecting from it, and it trains it out of the body.
It's still a good idea to look at the chest, shoulders, low back or back area to assure that this problem does not come back at a later day. But, even if you have had neck pain for years, you can still train it out. Remember, your body is a machine, and only a machine. It must do what you tell it to do. Please keep this in mind, you can do this with all things. Thank you.
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