Massage Therapy Treatment Can Provide You Lasting Neck Pain Relief!!

Neck pain relief must address the muscle strain and sprain that happened when your head, weighing up to 15 lbs, sitting on top of your neck, was whipped around in the car accident. This whipping strained your neck muscles (overstretched and injured them) or sprained your neck ligaments and tendons (overstretched and injured them), or did both.

Exercise will not bring you neck pain relief at this stage of your injury and normally will actually make your neck injury worse. Exercise is designed to strengthen healthy muscle tissue.

The following list are common symptoms you might experience related to neck pain after an auto accident injury:

• neck pain, stiffness and spasms
• headache

  

• shoulder pain and stiffness
• dizziness
• fatigue
• jaw pain
• arm pain
• arm weakness
• visual disturbances
• ringing in the ears (tinnitus)
• back pain

Getting the Help You Need - But Not In Seattle

We understand you might not be from Seattle, and may need more detailed information about your accident or how to handle things in your State. Please see our sister site, for assistance and more detailed coverage, including specifics for each State and the UK, Car Accident Answers

Pain Relief Right Now

Before we go any further, this next section is about finding neck pain relief at home, right now. Scan through the section about towel therapy, ice and heat. Get yourself comfortable, I will wait, it may make it easier to keep reading.

Neck Pain Relief at Home

Towel Therapy

And extremely effective home treatment for your neck pain is towel therapy. I was taught this by an ER doctor immediately following my own auto accident injury. Towel therapy is fabulous when you have to read alot or work on a computer as well.

• Take a normal sized bath towel and roll it on the ground along its longest side

• Place the towel around your neck like a scarf

• You will find the towel will give your head support, relieving some of your neck pain

• You will have some immediate neck pain relief

The towel will not create the weakness in the muscles the big old white cervical collars caused. Instead it just gives those neck muscles some much needed support of your heavy head.

You will find using the towel therapy after a work day can make your evening much easier, and less painful.

To Ice or Not to Ice? Heat?

What is the answer? This is how we decide. Choose Ice if you describe your pain in the following way, and/or you recently became injured:

Use Heat if you describe your pain in this way:

Heat and Ice provide symptom relief, making it easier to sleep, work and get through your normal day.

Do I have Whiplash?

The answer is yes, you likely do. Whiplash is a relatively common injury that is often ignored or mistreated due to lack of understanding of the condition.

Whiplash is the sudden forced movement of the head or neck in any direction, resulting in the head and neck rebounding in the opposite direction. This rebound is actually a whipping motion of your head and neck, and the supporting tissues can't help but become injured.

If your doctor has not used the term whiplash when talking to you, it does not mean you do not have it. Whiplash is diagnosed based on your report of your symptoms. So, look at the above list, if you were in an auto accident, and your neck hurts, and/or you have other pain, you have whiplash. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, states that whiplash occurs in 60% of all motor vehicle accidents.

For more details on Whiplash and auto accident injuries, head over here, Whiplash Symptoms.

How Long Will You Be In Pain?

One of the most important questions patients ask us. Although every individual will experience the pain from a car accident differently, there are some general guidlines based on your accident, which may help you understand your injury and how long you will be in pain, head over here to determine how long you may be in pain.

Massage For Neck Pain Relief

If these symptoms are familiar, finding pain relief starts with massage therapy. Did you know that exercise immediately after an accident can prolong the healing process and cause further pain?

Instead, the focus of your neck pain relief should be decreasing the inflammation and decreasing the pain. Massage therapy is hands on therapy. Using our hands we work the inflammation out of your muscles, much like you would work the toothpaste up a toothpaste tube.

After an auto accident injury, your neck muscles are in spasm. This spasm is like a tight fist, preventing fresh oxygenated blood and lymph fluid in or out of the tissue and causing pain when you move your neck.

1. Massage therapy is hands on therapy, no gizmos, and brings immediate pain relief

2. Our experienced massage therapists work all the muscles involved in your injury to bring you the most effective pain relief, relaxation massage will not get you out of pain

3. Muscle spasms from auto accident injuries are painful and slow to heal without treatment

4. Massage therapy decreases muscle spasms which cause pain and lack of movement

5. Therapeutic massage therapists spend an hour with you, to bring you real and lasting pain relief.

6. Recent studies showed patients were more satisfied in their neck pain relief after massage than after: physical therapy, acupuncture and over the counter medications

Other Home Remedies for Neck Pain Relief

Our favorite pain relief ointment is Arnica. Arnica works by decreasing bruising, swelling and pain associated with trauma. Arnica also reduces muscle aches and physical fatigue from overexertion. Arnica has no known side effects or drug interactions.

It is used as a pain relief ointment which you can apply to sore achy muscles anytime during your day to take the edge off your pain. The pain relief from Arnica is generally very fast as well.