Why Does My Neck Hurt After Pull ups?

Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. I was asked a question just the other day and it was: why does my neck hurt after I do pullups? I thought that was amazing because I have my own personal story with this. In this video, we're gonna talk about why that happens. I'm also gonna go over the anatomy, which will help explain why it happens and then how you get rid of it right now. Like if you're at home dealing with this, what do you, what can you do then? And if it persists what you can do, if it persists. So let's start with the story. I'm gonna tell myself, so just the other day I was doing pullups and I workout in my house and I thought I had one more in me. I go up and I pull down and, you know, my whopping, you know, two or three of those, and I did not have that last one. I immediately felt my neck tighten up and I knew that I was gonna be uncomfortable. It was just a matter of how uncomfortable. So the next day I woke up and I spent the whole day driving, turning my whole body. Every time I had to look to the right, I really hoped my kids would stop screaming and trying to get my attention to the right. I really wanted them to yell to the left. Because it just hurt, It was just bothersome. I won't say it was agony, just bothersome to turn my head to a certain range. Of course I got down and I did my exercises and I ice my neck and I did all the things that I'm about to tell you to do. It was fine within a day or so. I know now what I have to do to make sure that won't keep happening to myself.