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One of the common causes of a pinched nerve in the neck is a muscle spasm or muscle strain putting pressure on the nerve and compressing it. Relaxing the muscle will usually relieve the symptoms you are feeling. Listed below are some self-treatments for a pinched nerve in the neck that you can attempt.
pinched nerve from a herniated disc bending the neck forward and backward and twisting left and right places many kinds of pressure on the vertebrae and disc the disc responds to the pressure from the vertebrae by acting as a shock absorber bending the neck forward compresses the disc between the vertebrae