What to do when you get up in the morning and your neck hurts when you turn it

Getting up in the morning and having pain when you turn your neck may be caused by pillow fall, strain injury, cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, etc. The treatments include traditional Chinese medicine, medication and surgery. 1. Sleeping pillow: often caused by improper sleeping posture, cold neck, etc., usually can be recovered within 3~5 days. If the pain is more serious, you can take ibuprofen, celecoxib and other analgesic anti-inflammatory drugs or take hot compresses, massage and other traditional Chinese medicine. 2. Strain: mostly seen in the cervical spine improper use or poor recovery from trauma, such as desk work, strains, playing games, etc., the treatment to traction, massage, acupuncture and other treatments, cervical Fukang particles, musk bone cream and other blood circulation drugs as a supplement. 3. Cervical spondylosis: caused by cervical degenerative disease, osteophytes, long-term exertion, etc., pain when turning the neck, neck and back pain, dizziness and other symptoms. Most patients take traditional Chinese medicine, exercise therapy, drug therapy and physical therapy to relieve symptoms. Drug therapy is based on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as etoricoxib and muscarinic drugs such as epirubicin hydrochloride, and a few patients need to take anterior or posterior surgical treatment. 4. Frozen shoulder: refers to aseptic inflammation caused by chronic injury, degenerative disease, improper treatment of trauma, etc. It manifests itself as pain when the neck rotates, shoulder joint pain, and inconvenience in shoulder joint movement. The treatment of frozen shoulder includes exercise therapy, drug therapy, Chinese medicine therapy and surgery. Exercise therapy mainly refers to daily flexion, extension and rotation of the shoulder joint, drug therapy includes anti-inflammatory drugs such as celecoxib and diclofenac, Chinese medicine therapy includes tuina and acupuncture, and surgical therapy is more common with arthroscopic release. If the symptoms do not improve or worsen after resting, you should go to the hospital in time, complete the relevant examinations, and under the guidance of the doctor for treatment. The use of medication should follow the doctor’s instructions.