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What causes you neck to get strained when you go to sleep?

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Strained neck sleepi: You can strain or sprain your neck while sleeping by turning duribg sleep or while getting out of bed quickly some time and you have a painful neck which hurts to move.It is simply inflammation in muscle of the neck.

Answered 7/5/2012

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