Question:
My Neck Strain Is Killing Me?!?
I've had many neck strains in my life. Yes, the common type where it goes all the way down to your shoulder. But those neck strains happened when I was in elementary school, where my mom would buy cold or hot packs and try to relieve me as best as she could. But now since I am a teenager, she said that I should be taking care of myself by now, which I am. She said no more hot packs, cold packs, or even Ibuprofen. Come ON, my mom takes Ibuprofen WHENEVER she has pain in her body. Now the strain is killing me and my only other choices are neck stretches and lying in bed, which I've been trying for a week and nothing's helping; only pain from the stretches. Okay, I'm kind of complaining, but not exactly like a little whining girl. So no insults and please help me! Thanks.
-Camille
Answers:
have you got access to a wheat bag or hot water bottle
that would be useful
if you got some money you could go to the chemist and buy some sort of muscle rub after taking advice from the pharmacist
the hot /cold packs would be useful even if you are a teen i don't really get your mums point there!
you sound tense
a warm bath would help
best wishes
chiropractor, massage therapist...go on youtube and look up yoga exercises/stretches for neck...and if you are a teen ager...can't you put a cold/hot washcloth on your neck yourself??
see an hio method upper cervical specific chiropractor.