Eeeeh, fuck.

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My shoulder/neck is doing that hurty thing again, just for bout day! Hooray. I'm not going to let it keep me from playing tonight, especially since it's likely I won't be in the game a ton as it is, and also, because of where I tend to play I'll give and recieve most hits on my other side, but *still*.

I'm mostly, if not completely, pain-free in a neutral pose, when I turn my head a lot either way it hurts, but once it gets where its going the pain stops.

I'm not used to sporty related pain. I'm not sure if this one is from derby or from yoga or from a nice combo... So, sporty people (molly?) what should I do to either make this better as soon as possible, or at least make it not worse? Rub it? Stretch it? Leave it alone? Ice it? Heat it? Put smelly sporty cream on it? Take an over the counter painkiller? Any combination of these things? My inclination is that it feels tight and wants to be heated and stretched, but I know those things can also make things worse.

Bleh.

Anyway. Still excited.

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I've had neck-shoulder pain that pops up periodically for years now. Mine is the result of muscle spasms. There are two things I've found that really help. 1) A specific sort of massage (other types of massage don't really help, and sometimes make it worse) that is essentially deep pressure on certain trigger points. This doesn't make the pain go away, but turns it from sharp and almost unbearable to a much more subtle and mild ache. I usually go to a professional therapist, rather than trusting my untrained but well meaning friends/s.o.'s. 2) Recently a doctor I went to prescribed a low dose of prednisone for a muscle spasm and it knocked it out completely within hours of taking the first pill. Prednisone is much cheaper than a professional massage, so I'll probably go this route in the future. It is a steroid, though. I'm not sure it's considered an athletic steroid, but I'm also not sure what the rules of the Derby are about use of steroids.