What to do if your neck hurts when you sleep

If you feel extreme pain in your neck while sleeping, you may have a stiff neck. At this time, do not turn your neck, otherwise it will cause greater damage to your neck. You can take a professional massage, which can improve your condition or even get better. However, be sure not to use too rough techniques during the massage to avoid hurting your neck.

Western medicine can play an auxiliary symptomatic treatment role in the treatment of this disease. Analgesics, sedatives, vitamins (such as B1, B12) can be used. Hospital medications can include: vasodilators and Chinese herbal medicines, which have a certain effect on relieving symptoms. Traditional Chinese medicine can play a causal role in the treatment of this disease. However, we should pay attention to the side effects of oral Chinese medicine, which can cause great damage to the liver, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract.

Massage therapy

① Put the middle, index and ring fingers of your left or right hand together, find the tender points in the painful area of ​​your neck (mostly in the sternocleidomastoid muscle, trapezius muscle, etc.), and massage from light to heavy for about 5 minutes. You can do this alternately with your left and right hands.

② Use the hypothenar to strike the shoulders and neck quickly and briskly from top to bottom and from bottom to top for about two minutes.

③ Use your thumb and index finger to pinch the Fengchi and Jianjing points on the left and right for 1-2 minutes.

④ Press the stiff neck point (between the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal bones on the back of the hand, 5 fen behind the metacarpophalangeal joint) with your thumb or index finger, and continue for 2-3 minutes when you feel a sore and tight feeling.

⑤Finally, perform activities such as flexion, backward movement, left and right tilting, and rotation of the head and neck. This movement should be performed slowly and do not use excessive force.

Diet therapy

Since neck pain is caused by cervical vertebrae hyperplasia, bone degeneration and osteoporosis, patients with cervical spondylosis should eat a diet rich in calcium, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C and vitamin E. Calcium is the main component of bones, and is found primarily in milk, fish, pig tail bones, soybeans, black beans, etc. Protein is also an indispensable nutrient for the formation of ligaments, bones and muscles. Vitamins B and E can relieve pain. Relieve fatigue.

In addition, if cervical spondylosis is caused by damp-heat blocking the meridians, you should eat more fruits and vegetables such as kudzu root, bitter gourd, and loofah that can clear away heat, relieve muscles, and dredge the meridians; if it is caused by cold and dampness blocking the meridians, you should eat more mutton and other foods that warm the meridians and dispel cold; if it is caused by blood deficiency and qi stagnation, you should eat more foods such as rooster, carp, and black beans.