No, don’t worry, I’m not referring to any of my friends, family, or coworkers, I literally have a pain in my neck.
Ok, so it’s more of a muscle knot than anything else and it’s right where my neck meets my shoulder so it could technically be a pain in my shoulder but that doesn’t make for a fun title.
Anyway, one day last week, I managed to crunch up my shoulder in exactly the wrong way and I deeply offended one part of my trapezius muscle on my left side.
It’s putting a serious cramp (ha!) in some of my ‘Feb 5’ plans since I can’t do my core exercises or any rowing.
And during my patterns class at Taekwondo last week I had to tuck my left hand into my belt and only do the right-side hand movements of each pattern. (Just so you know, that makes it REALLY hard to let muscle memory take you through the movements.) Also, I’m pretty sure it looked as funny as it sounds.
I’ve tried heat, cold, muscle relaxants, leaning on a massage ball, and complaining about it and none of those things have really worked. Although that last one made me feel better for a few minutes. 😉
And, of course, I have been doing some gentle stretches and some yoga to try and get the knot to release.
I’ve found some relief that way but mostly this feels like one of those things that just has to work itself out.
Hopefully next week I’ll be able to report that my neck is less grumpy and the Feb 5 plan is going marvellously.
In the meantime, I’ll be taking good care of myself, doing some stretching, and enacting this protocol:
