What causes my neck pain when I wake up?

In our lives, people often have stiff necks. When they wake up early in the morning, their necks are sore and their spine can't move. In fact, this is all caused by poor sleeping posture and some bad sleep habits.

Poor lying posture, improper pillow height and firmness, and high stretching for a long time lead to spasm of one muscle group, which can lead to stiff neck. So when you sleep, you should pay attention to your sleeping position and choose the right pillow. When we sleep, if our neck and back are hit by a cold wind, the blood stagnates, which causes local muscle stiffness, which in turn leads to neck stiffness.

To avoid this, it is necessary to pay attention to the warmth of the neck and back. The temperature changes greatly in autumn, so always have a quilt ready accordingly. If you feel cold, add a quilt to avoid stiff necks caused by colds.

Pillows that are too high, too soft or uneven, neck trauma, neck affected by wind chill, and if it is caused by cervical spondylosis, "stiff neck" will recur. These first four can be mitigated by eliminating the cause. Family members can help the person with stiff neck to massage and warm compresses to relieve pain, gently press on the neck with one finger to find out the most painful area, then use one thumb to massage the most painful part from the top of the side neck to the back of the shoulder, massage the most painful part in turn, and massage the most painful part vigorously until you feel obvious pain.

Massage 2 3 times, and then tap the massaged area with a hollow fist, and the repeated massage tapping can quickly relax the spasmodic neck muscles and relieve pain. Warm compresses: Hot water bottles, electric heaters, hot towels, infrared light bulbs can relieve pain.

Care must be taken to prevent burns. Use safflower oil, Gancun Mountain rheumatic oil, cloud view, etc. Rubbing the pain 2 or 3 times a day has a certain effect.

Moist analgesic ointment and Xiao Zhong pain relief sound should be applied externally to the neck pain and changed once a day. However, after applying the ointment, the patient's neck movement is restricted, and pregnant women should not use it.

Acupuncture, can not pitch back and forth, take big trees, Jinggu, Kunlun. If you can't control the review, you have to take the Jianwaiyu, Houxi, and Fengchi acupoints. Generally, you can take the Xuanzhong acupoint, that is, three inches above the outer acupoint of the foot, acupuncture for 4 5 minutes, moxibustion 3 7 times, or massage this acupoint for 15 minutes each time.

Oral painkillers have a temporary analgesic effect. Change your sleeping position, adjust the height of your pillow, and twist your neck. If it is caused by cervical spondylosis, home self-cervical traction** should be performed under the guidance of a physiotherapist.

One, the pillow is too high. In particular, if the pillow is too high, it is easy to cause fascia and ligaments to be stretched, causing spasms and edema, which can cause neck pain.

Second, if you don't pay attention to the warmth of your neck when you sleep, you will get cold, which will cause spasmodic contraction of the soft tissues in the back of your neck, which will also lead to symptoms of neck pain when you wake up.

Third, the incorrect sleeping position leads to the occurrence of stiff neck, and this situation will also have obvious symptoms of neck pain when you wake up, and will lead to the limitation of neck movement, and the pain will be significantly aggravated when the neck is moved, and sometimes accompanied by headache symptoms.

1.Wind and cold, if the window is opened while sleeping or blown by the air conditioner, it can lead to acute injury to the muscles around the neck, and neck pain, at this time, early diagnosis should be made according to medical history and physical examination, and physical and oral drugs should be carried out as early as possible after diagnosis. 2.

If the posture is not correct or the height of the pillow is not suitable when sleeping, acute damage to the muscles around the neck can occur after sleeping, and it can also lead to neck pain.

It may be because of stiff neck, it may be because the neck is twisted during sleeping, it may be caused by the wrong sleeping position, or it may be because the neck is very sore due to frequent mobile phone play before going to bed, all of which may cause neck pain after waking up.

This is stiff neck, medically known as a neck sprain, and its main disease is muscle soreness on the back side of the neck and limited movement. Neck stiffness can be caused by improper burn holding in the sleeping position or pillows that are too high or too low. Neck movement is extremely limited.

**Subject to availability. Personalized plans are made for different people. The general principle is to relieve muscle spasms, reduce local swelling, relieve pain; It must be pointed out that in cases of severe neck movement restriction and severe pain, massage should not be used in the early stage, especially the effect of the cervical spine oblique plate, which will aggravate the pain and cause serious complications such as cervical spine displacement and even fractures!

Even if you do, you should focus on light skills.

Avoid bad posture, strengthen neck exercises, and choose the right pillow. MRI of the cervical spine or CT examination of the cervical intervertebral disc is recommended to confirm the condition before **. Your pain is basically based on the area from the left (or right) neck to the shoulder.

It is mainly caused by nerve compression here, possibly due to long-term compression for some reason. For example, sleeping on the side for a long time compresses the shoulder, resulting in poor blood flow. Prolonged compression can easily cause pain.

However, this symptom can be cured in about 2 days, so don't worry too much. Maintain a good posture after sleeping and surfing the Internet, and similar problems will not occur.

Sometimes due to the invasion of wind and cold, the local meridians are not smooth, and the stagnation of qi and blood can also cause stiff neck. Once it occurs, if the symptoms are mild, you can apply a hot towel to the affected area several times, then apply wind oil or safflower head oil, or apply a painkiller ointment to the affected area, and the symptoms will disappear quickly. In addition, acupressure is also available

Use the thumb and middle finger to massage the Neiguan acupoint and the outer Guan acupoint on the affected side for 2 minutes respectively; Then use your thumb to press the uterine acupoint of the foreign worker, a total of 200 points, with the neck movement. You can also ask others to gently rub the tender spots on the neck, back, and chest with their fingers for 3 5 minutes, while slowly bending the head forward, gently turning forward, backward, left, and right. When the muscles relax, you can suddenly turn your head to the healthy square, and then to the affected side.

If the patient's symptoms are severe, oral Chinese medicine can be taken: 12 grams of Pueraria lobata and 12 grams of red peony, 5 grams of ephedra, 10 grams of cinnamon branches, 5 grams of licorice, 3 slices of ginger, and 3 slices of jujube. After frying warm clothes, they will fall asleep and sweat.

In order to prevent stiff necking, the pillow should be placed at a suitable height when sleeping, and the pillow core should be soft and comfortable; At the same time, it is necessary to prevent the shoulders and back from getting cold; After waking up, do more neck exercises to enhance the resistance of the neck muscles. Possible causes of feeling stiff and sore neck after waking up: You may have torticollis (pain and stiffness caused by muscle contractions on one side of your neck).

Although I felt pain, it was not serious.

It may be due to improper posture when sleeping, excessive muscle stretching, or a cold neck, so the neck will hurt when you wake up.

It is very likely that the stiff neck is staggered, and the sleeping posture is not standardized, so it will cause neck pain, and we must adjust the posture when sleeping.

After waking up, I feel neck pain, which is usually caused by the wrong posture when sleeping, and the cervical spine is twisted, and the muscles compensate, resulting in soreness.