Neck/throat...

[Catrin]

Good your taking it easy.. Perhaps we can come back over for your belated birthday ride. Let's see what the next few weeks hold.

I will be mountain biking as often as the weather allows...but I would like the chance to do my birthday ride which is to "ride my age"...52 miles Doesn't have to be at one time, but it must be on the same day.

The neck seems to be improving as the inflammation decreases - I will take it

[Aggie_Ama]

I second massage. We had a car wreck in March that left my husband with whiplash. He is leery of chiropractors and didn't want to visit one, plus his insurance wasn't going to cover it. My cousin is a massage therapist and worked with him to alleviate the pain/stiffness.

My Mammaw also saw great success after having a lengthy bout of asphyxiation pneumonia. She was bed ridden so long and had trouble maintaining nutrients she had to go through physical therapy because her muscles were so weak and stiff. She felt like her niece (my cousin) was able to get a lot of that stiffness worked out where she could get home quicker. She said she has "healing hands".

[Catrin]

I am beginning to wonder if I DID hurt myself, though I may simply need a stronger anti-inflammatory... The muscular soreness is departing but there is a place in my neck-bone that is just staying tight and while my right arm generally does get all numb and tingly when I walk with it hanging down, it is worse than normal. Of course, that doesn't mean all of the inflammation is gone now that it is harder to find places sore to the touch... I will give it a few more days.

[redrhodie]

Did you get an X-ray? I'm wondering if it could be a broke collar bone, since it's a really common cycling injury.

[Catrin]

Did you get an X-ray? I'm wondering if it could be a broke collar bone, since it's a really common cycling injury.

No, but I can't see how it can be that as my neck/throat never actually hit anything...and it is the opposite side of my body that hit the ground and as the muscle soreness leaves so does the discomfort at the front of my throat, it seems apparent that it was from whiplash rather than a bone related injury. When I fall I always keep hold of my bars and allow the side of my body to take the fall, not my hand/arm.

Things went much better in spinning class last night and the only real discomfort left is in the back of my neck a couple of inches below the base of my skull, on the right side of my neck. I wouldn't call it painful, just tight and uncomfortable. Rubbing it doesn't help...if it doesn't ease soon I will see my dr who is an osteopath...