5 At Home Remedies for Neck Pain

It seems like just about everyone lives with some neck pain. Fortunately, there are many ways that people can treat their own neck pain in the comfort of their own home. At Back on Track Chiropractic, we teach patients how to change their lifestyle to help them live happier, more comfortable lives. The following techniques can help you reduce your neck pain:

1. Stretches and exercises. Move your head slowly in a circle, first clockwise, then counter clockwise. Do this several times. You can also try turning your neck to look in each direction side to side, and look down and up. Try to turn your head a little farther with each new pass.
2. Aroma therapy. Soothing scents can help loosen tight muscles to relieve pain and stiffness in the neck. To implement this technique, take a bath with smelling salts or scented oils, then rub the oils into your skin.
3. Cold therapy. Cold therapy helps constrict blood vessels and thus reduce inflammation in the muscles. To use cold therapy, hold a cold compress, wrapped in a towel, to your injured neck for several minutes.
4. Heat therapy. Heat therapy helps open up blood vessels and encourage blood flow to injured parts of the body. In this way, heat therapy is restorative and relaxing. Heat therapy can help loosen tight muscles and improve your range of motion.
5. Take a warm shower. Hold your neck under a warm stream of water from a shower for several minutes. Allow the hot water to beat down on your neck and massage the muscles.

Contact Back on Track Chiropractic and Wellness Center

At Back on Track Chiropractic and Wellness Center, we help patients learn the best ways to manage their neck pain both inside and outside the chiropractic clinic. If you've never been to a chiropractor before, now is the time. Call your Birmingham Chiropractor at 205-623-5782 for an appointment and we'll help you find the remedy for your regular neck pain.