What does it mean to sleep with a stiff neck? What should I do after sleeping with stiff neck?

If you sleep with stiff neck, it may be that one neck cannot move due to the wrong posture, so after sleeping with stiff neck, we should find an experienced person and pinch your shoulders.

Sleeping stiff neck means that the cervical spine is damaged, causing discomfort in the cervical spine and causing pain in the cervical spine. After sleeping on stiff neck, you can carry out hot compresses, local massage, infrared rays of the umbilicus, etc., and can also cooperate with acupuncture and physiotherapy of traditional Chinese medicine to promote blood circulation in order to be better.

Sleeping stiff neck is a very normal phenomenon, after sleeping stiff neck, what you should do is to massage your neck, and then don't let it do some movements that are too large, otherwise it is easy to sprain, and the impact of the sprain will be greater.

In our daily life, we may have stiff neck when sleeping, but stiff neck is more uncomfortable for us, the following introduces some daily ways to relieve stiff neck and prevent stiff neck, I hope to help you prevent stiff neck when sleeping. So what should I do if I have stiff neck while sleeping? How to prevent stiff neck in daily sleep?

1. Ways to relieve stiff neck

1. Move the neck.

Follow the steps of stretching the neck, rotating the neck left and right, and tilting your head up and down to move your neck, repeating two or three times to relax the neck joints. You can also let the head write a "write" word, and in the process, you can also move your neck in all directions up and down, left and right.

2. Massage + hot compress on the neck.

Massage the neck properly, and then use a hot towel to warm the compress, which can play a role in activating the meridians, which can help effectively relieve the pain caused by stiff neck.

3. Shrug your shoulders. The shoulders and neck are connected by blood, and by shrugging the shoulders, you can also relieve the discomfort caused by stiff neck. How to do it: Raise both shoulders up and down at the same time for 15 consecutive times. In addition, it can be supplemented with a gentle pat to move the shoulder.

4. Coating medicine. The use of some drugs can also effectively relieve the pain of stiff neck, such as Gancun Mountain rheumatic oil with Kai, safflower oil, cloud essence, etc. Rub the drug on the sore spot after stiff neck, 2 or 3 times a day, it has a certain effect.

2. Prevent stiff neck

1. Maintain the correct sleeping posture of the ascending forest: normal physiological curvature should be maintained during sleep. The pillow should be placed at an appropriate height, generally around 8 10 cm.

The pillow core should be soft and hard, and it is necessary to choose a buckwheat husk pillow that has a certain hardness and can fix the head. The pillow with a slightly firm pillow can not only relieve the fatigue of the neck muscles, but also play a role in pressing the acupuncture points located in the neck. For example, the sleeping posture at night is poor, and the head and neck are in an excessively deflected position for a long time; Or because the pillow is not suitable during sleep, too high, too low or too hard, so that the head and neck are in a state of hyperextension or hyperflexion, it can cause muscle tension on one side of the neck, make the facet joint of the cervical spine twisted, cause local pain and discomfort, and the movement is obviously limited, causing stiff neck.

2. To prevent the neck and shoulders from feeling wind chill: Feeling wind chill in the shoulders is one of the common causes of stiff neck. If you are cold during sleep, blowing a fan or turning on an air conditioner can cause rheumatoid myositis in the neck and back, muscle spasms, and tendon paralysis, resulting in stiffness and pain, unfavorable movements, and stiff neck.

3. Prevent neck injury and eliminate chronic strain of the neck: stiff neck can also be a manifestation of cervical spondylosis. Long-term bad posture, such as long-term work with the head bowed, long-term computer operation, or incorrect sitting posture, etc., can make the muscles in a state of tension all the time, which is easy to cause chronic strain of the neck, changes in the normal physiological curvature of the cervical spine, causing cervical spondylosis, and poor sleeping posture at night, which is more likely to promote stiff neck.

4. Strengthen exercise: often do neck exercises, do more neck exercises and cervical spine health exercises, in order to strengthen the resistance of neck muscles and prevent stiff neck. Exercise is best done in the morning and after a long period of work with your head down.

Stiff neck is a very common phenomenon in our daily life, many people at night if the sleeping posture is not good or due to the pillow is easy to lead to stiff neck, if the stiff neck is not carried out in time, it will be very uncomfortable, to the next day's work and life will bring a very big impact. Today, I will tell you what are the symptoms of stiff neck and what to do after stiff neck?

1. Pain. The most common symptom of stiff neck is that the patient feels very sore in the shoulder muscles, and the pain after stiff neck is unilateral rather than the whole shoulder. These are caused by sleeping in the same sleeping position for a long time when sleeping at night, or when sleeping at night, the neck is attacked by the cold wind.

2. Restricted activities. Because the shoulder is unilateral pain after stiff necking, it can limit the patient's movement, especially when the person turns his head or twists his head to one side. Or you may find that you can't rotate at all, and you will be fixed in one place, and the slightest movement will cause pain.

1. Massage. Pillows usually cause unilateral soreness in the shoulder, so patients can use their fingers to find the most painful part of their shoulder, and then press with their thumb to relax the muscles and relieve pain.

2. Hot compress. Most body aches and pains can be relieved by hot compresses, patients can take a hot water bottle to fill hot water, or find a towel, soak it with hot water, and apply it to their own stiff neck can also play a role in relieving pain, but pay attention to the water temperature is not too hot to prevent neck burns.

3. Use painkiller cream. After stiff neck, you can go to the pharmacy to buy a painkiller cream, stick it to the painful area, and remember to change it once a day, it also has a good pain-relieving effect. If it is a pregnant woman, it is best not to use drugs randomly.

4. If the stiff neck is very serious and the patient is directly unable to move, it is necessary to take drugs in time**, and you can go to the pharmacy to buy some anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving drugs to help muscle relaxation and relieve pain symptoms.

The neck can't move at all, can't turn the head, it will be particularly painful, affecting the mental state, with these symptoms, you should go to rest after falling the stiff neck, adjust the height of the pillow, go to massage, you can recover.

The neck is crooked, it will be very painful, you can't turn your head, it affects your mental state, these are the main symptoms, you must rest well after stiff neck, you can do massage to recover.

There will be pain in the neck, there will be discomfort reactions, spinal sprains, back colds, cervical spondylosis, or insufficient blood supply to the brain. It can be relieved by massage, or by cupping, and be sure to adjust your posture.

It may be that you hold a movement for a long time, and your neck is nested. It may be that the pillow is too high, it may be that the sleeping position is not right, or it may be that the neck is cold, which will cause stiff neck. You can use a hot towel to wet your neck, or you can go in and massage your neck, and slowly move your neck to recover.

This is because you are sleeping in the wrong position, so it is caused. When I slept, I often turned over, and my sleeping state was not particularly good, and my neck was bent, and I didn't sleep on the pillow. You can massage your own neck.

1. Maintain a correct sleeping position.

2. Choose the right pillow next to the hailstone.

3. Prevent neck movement from being damaged.

4. Massage**.

5. Stroking**.

1.Maintain the correct sleeping position: The correct sleeping position is mainly to lie on the back, supplemented by the left and right side of the bed. It is necessary to ensure that the pillow maintains the physiological curvature of the neck when lying on the back, so that the chest can breathe smoothly in the supine bed, and the muscles of the whole body can be relaxed, which is also conducive to deepening the depth of sleep.

2.Choose the right pillow: when lying on your back, the pillow can maintain the curvature of the neck, and the edge of the pillow should be curved, not sloped; The height of the pillow should be in line with the width of the person's shoulders, and the height of the pillow should be about one fist when lying on the back, and the pillow height should be one fist and two fingers when lying on the side.

3.Prevent damage to neck movement: Some stiff necks are caused by improper head and neck movement, such as sprains from suddenly turning back, carrying heavy objects on the shoulders, or wind chill attacks and colds while sleeping.

Therefore, Western medicine also refers to these diseases with acute muscle spasm, stiffness, soreness, and pain in the neck as the main symptoms of head and neck rotation failure and activity disorder as "trapezius muscle synthesis" or "acute fibrohistosis of the neck and shoulder".

4.Massage**: The most distinctive health care method, with the purpose of dredging the meridians and regulating qi and blood.

5.Stroking**: It is a kind of massage that touches a certain part of the patient's head, face and neck, and uses a stiff neck to fall into the stiff neck.

1. Maintain a correct sleeping posture before fighting.

2. Choose the right pillow-based hail to clear the head.

3. Prevent neck movement from being damaged.

4. Massage**.

5. Stroking**.

If you often fall into a stiff neck when sleeping, it is because your sleeping posture is incorrect, and when you sleep, you should put a pillow on it, not too high, face up, and do not compress the limbs.

I think it may be that your sleeping position is not accurate enough, or that you are always active when you sleep. I think if you want to avoid it, you can first lie down.

It's just because of your pillow problem, you can change to a more comfortable pillow, and try to keep your head flat on top of the pillow when you sleep.

Most people have experienced stiff neck, the neck can not move for a long time, and it hurts when you move, you should be very curious about what causes stiff neck? Stiff neck is very painful, especially in the morning, the neck pain is not stopped, and the gas to get up is really a torment. Stiff neck, also known as stiff neck, is a common disease in young adults, generally concentrated in spring and winter, let's take a look at the causes of stiff neck.

1. Muscle sprains

If you sleep in the wrong position at night and put your neck in an over-deflected position for a long time, stiff neck will occur. The other is that the pillow is not suitable, not too high and not too low, if it is too high, the head and neck will show a state of hyperflexion, too low is a state of hyperextension, both of which will cause muscle tension on one side, resulting in sprains of the facet joints of the cervical spine, causing poor flow of qi and blood, pain and discomfort, and it will be very difficult to move the neck, which will make people feel very bad.

2. Feel the wind chill

When you are cold, especially in summer, your back will be stiff and painful, and then your neck movement will be restricted, so don't be cold when you sleep.

3. Some neck trauma

If the neck is injured, the muscle protective tissue will also contract, the joint will be twisted, and the posture of the neck will be poor, which can easily cause stiff neck.

4. Neck tendon injuries such as cervical spondylosis

People with cervical spondylosis are easy to fall stiff, if they are accidentally infected with wind and cold, and then sleep in a bad position, cervical spondylosis will be **, and stiff neck will become commonplace.

**Method of stiff neck:

1. Stiff neck is often painful on one side of the neck, and then restricts the movement of the neck, at this time you can use your hands to **, smash or hammer the pillow part, and it is generally relieved quickly.

2. You can find someone else to massage, the intensity of the massage should be increased little by little, when you can't stand it, it is the best strength, and then massage according to this strength.

3. Ice compress to relieve, you can find ice cubes or something very icy, wrap it in a towel, and then ice the stiff neck part, which is more practical.