Acute neck pain/ injury at the gym

[alophysio]

Hi - i am not sure there are any structures in the neck that aren't innervated.

To me it sounds like you have sprained your neck - a 4 week recovery is about right for self-healing but if it is without proper treatment, it is likely to be a less-than-optimal repair and so likely to happen again (as it seems it has again).

THe pain in the neck is likely to be the painful, innervated structure. The head pain is likely to be referred from the neck, particularly the upper neck. If the problem is in the lower neck, the upper neck can be affected by the muscles that cross both regions from the thorax/shoulder below etc.

My recommendation (as with the others above) is go see someone about it. Not likely to be a nasty problem but what if it is??

[Dapy]

The history points to acute on chronic due to repetitive injury to the immature connective tissue.Reason? Wrong muscles to exercise( Deep stabilizers,global stabilizers and global movers), when these 3 types are used wrongly, you are prone to injury.What you can do is to contact your physiotherapist who will assess your motor control and kinetic handling of deep neck muscles and so on.And please stop going to gym for now until you are advised by your PT.