Posted: 5/9/2007 10:18:20 AM EDT
| So I tried to do some wrestling/BJJ after a layoff and managed to twea something in my upper back and neck. It hurts in my upper back on the right side of my spine between my shoulder blades when I look to the left. I was almost immobole for about 24 hours and hit ice and heat on the area and took anti inflamatories, got massaged, popped my spine, and it still hurts. I felt nothing the night I injured my back. Is this likely just a pulled muscle or pinched nerve or what? I feel like I have to walk around like I am in a neckbrace. I dont turn my head or alter my shoulder position to keep from feeling pain. I cannot tuck my chin to my chest without pain either. What is this and what should I do? I have no insurance right now so no doctor visits. |
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You're just getting old like the rest of us. Seriously, does it hurt when you turn your head? Is it one of those tearing/burning type pain, or just sore muscle pain? Could you have pinched a nerve in your neck? Have you thought about seeing a chiropractor (in defilade)? |
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Tough call.... Ive had a sprained neck for a long time. Its always hurting, cracking every few minutes. Ive been to many chiros with zero results. I just watch the way I sleep...try to keep a pillow plopped right between my neck and upper back. Mine comes from, well the docs say anyways, from looking down while doing heavy standing exercises.... one goofy thing that a chiro told me to do was wrap a beer can in a towell and put that under my neck...it actually did help for a bit. if your pain doesnt go away in a few days go see a doc..its worth the cost in the long run. My chiros would usually charge me 35 bucks a session on avg.... |
I can look everywhere now without pain except straight down which has only enough pain for it to be annoying. I rolled my upper spine forward once with 405 on my back trying to rack the bar in a squat rack and heard and felt a pop in my upper spine once. I could not train for 3 months. I was worried this would be a repeat or reaggrivation of that but I would say I should be OK to train by next week. I have done lots of ice and used a heating pad and had my GF pop my spine several times as well as lots of anti inflamatories. Of course now I have a cold and am miserable from that. It figures. 
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