Help! Any remedies for a stiff neck?

Question

I have a stiff neck:( It happened yeterday afternoon while I was napping. My sister took off the pillow from me:( Anyway, what are the remedies for a stiff neck? I'm having guitar lessons so having a stiff neck will be a problem:(

Answer 1

ice it for 24 hours(not straight) to help relieve any swelling, then moist heat to soften and losen up the muscle. after heating gentle massage of the area. you can do mild stretches to the side or forward, which ever way will produce a stretch of the area.
you do not want to stretch to the point of pain though, just small movements just to the point of before pain. do the stretches several times a day after moist heat and massage if someone is nice enough to give you one.

Answer 2

Maybe it's just to remind us that our lives are full of stress. Or it could be a punishment for sleeping with the windows open on a cool autumn night. Or because we didn't fix the shocks on the car, now we have to pay the price in aches and pains.

Sometimes the proverbial pain in the neck does have a physical basis. Stress--physical or otherwise--tenses the muscles in your neck, and you wake up one morning with a neck that sends complaint messages flashing through your nervous system.

A stiff neck is a common, usually harmless, problem that lasts just a few painful days. Whether you already have a stiff neck or you've had it before and want to avoid an encore, try these helpful hints.

Answer 3

I used to have this all the time, my Chiropractor told me to use ice, not heat.

Answer 4

Apply a heating pad, hot water bottle... and stretch it out.

Answer 5

rub it till its not stiff anymore

Answer 6

chiropractor. always makes me feel better. in the long term.

Answer 7

a massage