subject: Some Thoughts Regarding A Crick In The Neck And How To Deal With It [print this page] You know the situation where you wake up with a pain in your neck often related to as a crick in the neck. You might have slept with a to hard/soft pillow. You might have slept in a wrong position or you just wake up with that irritating crick in the neck without any clue what so ever about what caused it. What ever the reason was it is a nasty and sometime crippeling situation. And off cause it happens on a Monday You just see a whole week a head off you with that pain in your neck making a normal active day a living hell. You start thinking about asperin, getting one of your colleague at work to rub your neck or even to call in sick. None off those options solve your problem! They just push it ahead off you. After the painkiller stop working the pain is still there; your colleague are probably NOT a professional MT so the rubbing will most certainly not solve your problem.
Now you have some serious options to save your week. First you try to find the reason, even though it can be hard or even impossible to find. Change what ever you find that can be the reason for you painful and stiff neck. The next you can do is try to stretch those muscles that you have mistreated the whole night. Often you have to stretch at least 4-5 different stretches to get it all done. And some times you just cant get it fixed enough and you sit there with a not fully functional neck. Proper massage that really LOOSEN muscle tensions are not a difficult task to do. It is a delicate task I admit but not hard or difficult. Happy week on work!
Good for you there are more options on solving your problem. Among others a masseur with the right technic will be able to help you. What he/she will be doing with your neck is a matter off the situation. A crick in the neck is not a certain situation, more a common name for a lot of different situations. What will be done is off cause guided by your specific situation. Most common are tensions in your Scalene muscles (some muscles that your ribs hang in), the Levator scapulae (a muscle that elevate the shoulder) an a lot off the small muscles in the back off your neck holding, rotating an nodding your head.
The masseur will loosen those muscles causing your the pain in your neck that are often followed by a splitting headache. Personally I prefer to use the classical European massage (often referred to as Swedish even though whats called Swedish not is the exact original massage). It is painless, highly effective and easy to use; and I dont have to use a lot of power to do it. If the situation calls for it I can add stretching to the palette of tools to solve the problem.
