Neck problems and heat

[AppleTree]

Not an expert at all on this subject, but my chiropractor tells me to NOT use heat as it can make the inflammation worse. She says ice! Ice! Ice!

[Catrin]

Do you usually sleep on the same pillow without heating it? If not, I'd be more inclined to blame the pillow than its temperature ...

Anyway, hope you feel better soon.

I don't normally sleep with the heated "pillow". I do sleep on a cervical pillow and I generally switch it around a bit. I probably had the cervical pillow in the wrong position because of the little seed-corn pillow

Sleeping on a heated seed pillow is not likely to cause a problem from the heat side of things, but certainly could from a positioning side of things.

This is what I am thinking Wahine...and next time I will bow out of the weighted barbell squat jumps I don't know that it is related, but I have to wonder since it happened within 48 hours. My usual neck mobility has returned, though it still hurts a bit more than normal. I also wonder if this terribly cold weather, and the duration thereof, is part of it. Oh well, I will survive

[Wahine]

Not an expert at all on this subject, but my chiropractor tells me to NOT use heat as it can make the inflammation worse. She says ice! Ice! Ice!

It is true that heat can aggravate inflammation but there are a lot of conditions that are not inflammatory based that can benefit from the use of heat. Ice is the safest choice if you're not sure if inflammation is involved. But ice is also not terribly effective for some conditions, where as heat can be. So it's not a black and white issue.