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Heat or Ice?

by JILL SCHILDHOUSE Aug 15, 2017 3 minutes

ave you ever gotten in your car, reached for your seat belt and tweaked your neck? I have and it’s basically the lamest way ever to injure yourself. To make matters worse, I tried to ignore my injury out of sheer embarrassment. The pain and inability to turn my head in either direction likely would have been diminished had I just put some ice on it. Or should that be heat? I can never remember, so I chose neither and suffered for nearly a week,

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