31/03/2026
⚡️⚡️Waking with a stiff neck may have nothing to do with your pillow!!
While sleeping on your side or stomach for 8 hrs with your arm tucked under your head pushing your shoulder towards your ear it shortens the Levator Scapulae muscle, the muscle stiffens and has restricted blood flow!!
The actual injury happens when you wake up not while you sleep!!
💥You stand up, and gravity pulls your heavy shoulder and arm back down to your side.
⚡️Levator Scapulae was shortened for 8 hours, lt can’t relax back down. Your nervous system triggers an emergency reflex, throwing the muscle into a splinting spasm to prevent it from tearing.
🙌🏼 Massage can help treat the active trigger points and spasm by applying heat, trigger point release techniques and gentle mobilisation stretches