Stiff Neck, how do you ease the pain?

You may have been told that your neck pain is being caused by a pinched nerve, a compressed disk, arthritis, or a displaced cervical vertebra. In reality, your pain may be due solely to referral from myofascial trigger points (tiny contraction knots) in overworked or traumatized muscles of your upper back and shoulders. Trigger points typically refer pain; that is, they usually send their pain to some other site. This is why neck pain can be so frustrating and hard to get rid of. You may never find the real cause of your neck pain if you look for it only in the neck. Throughout the body, conventional treatments for pain so often fail because they focus on the site of the pain while overlooking and failing to treat the cause, the myofascial trigger points that may be some distance away.

Sleeping without a pillow will prevent a stiff neck.I tried this, a hot shower will relieve the tension in your neck muscles. the hot shower gently massages your neck muscles while providing deep heat. Here's another one:try a pain reliever. two aspirin every 4 hours will reduce the pain of a stiff neck.Or, sleep on your back with a pillow under your lower spine. You can start doing isotonic exercises to strengthen your muscles and prevent injury.