What are you supposed to do when you pull a muscle in your neck?

Is there any way from preventing it from hurting so much after I pull the muscle?

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Heat on it should help relax the muscle. Try standing in a hot shower or soaking up to your neck in a hot tub if possible. Afterward you can try rubbing something like Ben Guey or Deep Heat to penetrate through and keep it warm. Cover with a towel and lay a heating pad or hot water bottle over it. If you can see your physician meanwhile, he might give you a muscle relaxant in pill form to take for a few days till the soreness subsides. Ideal wishes

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Take Acetaminophen. Also place a warm heating pad on the area or soak in lukewarm water in the tub submerging the neck. A pulled muscle won't heal very fast so don't anticipate miracle cures. A heat generating liniment should also help. Another pain killer medicine is Naproxin.

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Aleve is good for muscle pain. A heating pad and some icy hot or other ointment will also help.

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Heat and ice