Drinking alcohol does not usually directly cause whiplash pain. Cervical pain after drinking may be related to incorrect neck posture, cervical spine strain, cervical spine degeneration and hyperplasia. 1. Incorrect neck posture: Alcohol stimulation after drinking leads to fuzzy consciousness, incorrect sleeping posture, and keeping the neck in a posture for a long time can easily lead to muscle spasm of the neck, which can also cause cervical spine pain. 2. Cervical spine strain: cervical spine strain may lead to inflammatory edema of muscle fascia and ligaments, and it is easy to aggravate the edema after drinking alcohol, which will lead to cervical spine pain. 3. Degenerative hyperplasia of the cervical vertebrae: If you have degenerative hyperplasia of the cervical vertebrae, drinking alcohol may lead to aseptic inflammatory stimulation around the hyperplasia, resulting in cervical spine pain. If you can’t get relief from cervical pain after drinking alcohol, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible to improve the examination and get a clear diagnosis and correct treatment under the guidance of the doctor, and pay attention to avoiding drinking alcohol in your daily life.