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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.
Two Types of Pinched Nerves. A pinched nerve can cause symptoms either locally, exactly where the site of entrapment of the nerve is, or it can cause symptoms that are distal, which radiate from that pinched nerve site down the arm, or down the leg or to other parts of the body.isual Demonstration of a Pinched Nerve. I'm going to show this on a smaller model set of the spine. Here I have two of the lower spine vertebrae: the L4 and the L5, or 4th and 5th lumbar vertebrae. These vertebrae are held together by elastic so it's very easy for me to demonstrate what a pinched nerve looks like.