You can take medication and physical therapy to relieve the pain after a pillow fall.
1. Medication: apply non-steroidal painkillers, such as oral acetaminophen or nimesulide dispersible tablets, topical flurbiprofen gel paste, oral muscle relaxants, such as cotrimoxazole or eteplirisone. Pay attention to neck warmth, reduce neck activities.
2. Physical therapy: you can use a towel to apply hot and wet compresses for thirty minutes at a time. Local massage to relieve muscle spasm. Acupuncture, gua sha, cupping, wax therapy, mid-frequency pulse physiotherapy and other methods to relieve pain.
If the pain in the neck and shoulder is obvious after a pillow fall, you need to go to the hospital for further treatment.