Hello everyone,
First I would like to thank you all for the greats posts in this thread. I have learned alot about my condition just by reading all your comments.
I have been going through a neck injury for almost 3 years now and counting. What happened was that I feel on my head in practice which caused a pinched nerve to occur between C5/C6.
In the begining I did not take the injury serious at all (This is because I am a moron). I just thought this thing is going to pass by itself and I did not know anything about nerve damage.
When I met my fysio in January this year to start fixing my neck I was in such a poor shape that I could not even use a fork with my hand becaues of the pain.
Now it's been 9 months and I must say things have changed for the beter. Now I am able to train and have gone from 166 to 200 pounds. I still got alot of work ahead of me, but things are improving everytime I exercise.
I am going to give you my best advice and what this journey has thought me.
- Get a great pillow. I have this one
Amazon product ASIN B005WKFWHO (It's expensive, but your neck will thank you.)
- Buy an reuseable icepack. Whenever you have just the slightest of pain, then ice the area and use a cloth to avoid directly touching your skin (15-20 minutes max).
- If you have a neck injury sleep with the arm along your body, instead of bending your arm as this will cause more pain. Try to hold it as straight as possible, this worked great for me in the begining to be able to get sleep.
- Change your diet. I cut of all proccessed food and sugar, dieary, gluten. Try to find some great supplements and eat healthy, this will shorten your injury time for sure.
- Train every 48 hours. In this stage where I am at now is all about building that muscle back and training the muscles everyday is great in the begining but as you progress you want to to build mass.
- It takes time, alot of time. I've had multiple events where i felt things change for the beter. But it's usually months between the improvements.
- I did not take any pain killers. In the begining I maybe should had done that, but I wanted to actually get healthier and not just take medication to ease it for the moment.
- Avoid everything that causes irriation to the nerve. Some things I would love to do and can't still because of the injury.
Most of this has been covered in the thread before. And I am really greatful to have read so many great forum threads about nerve injury.
They have thought me more about this condition then any doctor ever did.
If you have any questions, send me a pm.
/Ceen