Have you seen a neurologist? It is necessary to exclude pathology of the cervical spine. My neck shoots up sometimes, I have chronic tension on the left in the trapezius and neck muscles. I live in a region where ATACMS missiles are flying, so my airport is not working, and the nearest airport is 860 km away. (520 miles), which is 12 hours by car. I went back and forth twice in the summer, I held the steering wheel with my left hand. Since then, sometimes a muscle in my neck suddenly contracts, making the bones of my spine crack and snap. Tell me, have you taken a course in back, neck, and trapeze massage? Since I started swimming, my back muscles have been feeling good. In order not to strain my neck, I swim on my back or on my stomach with my face in the water. To stretch the neck muscles, you need to stand in the water so that your head is above the water. I also do myself a superficial and deep neck massage, there are clamps in the deep muscles, I conditionally press hard on it, I feel severe pain and nausea, half my head cramps, and after 7-15 seconds.The pain subsides and the muscle clamp significantly weakens. It seems that this is a myofascial syndrome, in order to stop it, a technique is used when you need to press on the trigger point to limit the supply of oxygen, this will stop the oxidation of ATP and stop the production of energy needed to contract muscle fibers. But this should not be done, if your muscle is strongly "bitten" and severe pain has spread over a small area, it hurts a lot to move the muscle at this moment, then you do not need to put pressure on it - it will only get worse. This is a severe spasm and adhesion of muscle fibers . Muscle fibers interlock mechanically, and then in such situations they cannot detach, return to their original position, they say this is due to the strong excitation of neurons in the muscle. It helps to rest for 3-5 days, and after that you can start working with the muscle with the help of massage, stretching.
