My neck REALLY hurts when I move it to the left!!??

Question

I was tossing and turning in my bed, and I heard a pop, and now it hurts!! I've been playing lots of tennis and basketball

Answer 1

See a chiropractor. A reputable one of course! They can do wonders for range of motion and pain. Call one in your area and ask for patient references. Or you can talk to your family doctor and ask who he/she would recommend.

Good luck!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Hold your neck in the palms of your hands. Sit down and close your eyes, relax, and breathe slowly-- inhale through your nose, hold and energize the neck, exhale through the mouth. Repeat till pain subsides. Gently and very, very slowly try to move the neck to the left while you exhale. Move neck to the right. . .to the left..--very, very gently and slowly. . . If no pain--good--if you feel the slightest discomfort stop turning and repeat the breathing till the spasm ends. Try the process again and again till you release the spasm completely. With time try to add some creative visualization techniques to speed the release process . Good luck and good bye pain. For further instructions call or see your health care practitioner,especially if the problem persists. Have Happy and Healthy New Year.

Answer 4

first don't move it in the direction that you have pain in.

second, try to rotate moist heat and ice no more than 20 mins for ice and about 30 for heat.

third take an anti-inflammatory medication for a couple of days, like Aleve or OTC Naproxen

if you are not better in a couple of days then call the Doc and he may send you to a PT or Chiropractor. He may also prescribe a medication called Skelaxin or Flexaril, they are muscle relaxers that will help a great deal.

Good luck

Answer 5

# Get something hot, like one of these cold packs or bags of corn which you can heat in the microwave and put that on your neck.

# Use some deep heat or similair muscle relief cream.

# Get someone to massage your neck muscles intensively, NOT THE SPINE.

# It´ll take about 2 weeks to go completly, in that time take it easy don´t do any irratic sports. Swimming is good.

Answer 6

I truely hate when that happens. For me it usually goes away after a few hours or after the next night's sleep. Try to keep your neck to the right, and not the left, mainly because the pain is on the left.

Answer 7

i think you had a tear in your right sternocliedomastoid (the 2 long muscles in front of your neck that stiffin when you are looking to the sides of your head or tilt your head downwards against resistance ) at it's origin at the back of your ear.
it is relieved by turning the head to it's side(right) .
i think you should have complete rest and a neck collar for supportion of your head untill the pain goes (2-3 weeks).

Answer 8

So take some Ibuprofen and take a hot shower to loosen it up. Also, get a moist-heat heating pad. When your neck is nice and warm, gently stretch it. You just slept wrong. It will be better tomorrow.

Answer 9

don't "baby it" cuz it will make it worse. You are gonna have to use your left side every once in a while otherwise it will get stiff. Just be careful with it when you do move your neck.

Answer 10

OUCH! I did that once, put ice on it. Try not to move it and use ice, then later switch to heat. It sounds like a pulled muscle and they are painful for a couple days.