I slipped on a patch of ice during a walk on Tuesday. I didn't fall, but in catching myself, I felt the back right side of my neck almost jolt with electricity "ZING!". It hurt after that, but not too bad. I had to plow our driveway that evening and turning my head to the right side hurt quite a bit, but I needed to turn my head so I rather forced it that way when necessary to complete the task.

Yesterday morning: Wow. I've sprained by back in the past so I'm familiar with that kind of thing, but it was amazing the amount of pain in my neck. I was more or less bedridden yesterday. In addition to the overall dull pain from the muscle strain, the worst part by far and something I've never experienced in my neck were the spasms. For periods up to a minute, the spasm pain was near excruciating.

I think it's getting better today since I've only had a few spasms and they are milder than yesterday.

I took 600mg of Ibuprofen yesterday and it did nothing. I have not taken any pain meds today. I generally have a pretty high pain tolerance and avoid any pain meds if I can possibly help it.

My head yesterday and today is tilted to the left as if I'm cocking my head and my right shoulder dips down. I can very very slowly tilt my head back to straight today; yesterday trying that would send my neck into an instant spasm.

So....I'm assuming each day will get better but will my head still want to tilt that way for a long time?

I think it's purely muscular and possibly aggravated nerves rather than some sort of "slipped disc" since I have no pain when I slowly move my head up and down or side to side, no vertebral pain is what I mean.

Any advice?

Thanks.