Right now I use Celadrin Cream, which I got on iherb.com, but while I was working, I used Icy-Hot. The drawback with that is that the odor was LASTING! This cream loses it’s odor about the time it begins to work (within five minutes) so by the time I need more (about three hours) I don’t mind using it again.
White willow bark capsules are also good (aspirin is the man-made version of this) and they don’t upset your stomach. You can get them on iherb.com as well.
Let me know what you use and how it works. Not everyone gets the same benefits from the same medicines, but remember that these are herbal remedies, and do not work like man-made. It may take longer to see results, but the results are longer-lasting.
Is that for joint or for muscle ache? I usually just go to sleep if my neck gets strained and the muscles relax. Hanging upside down helps, too, but the power rack is in the garage so I don’t do that much any more. It took me six months to learn a very involved chi kung (qi gong) form in the nineties, but since then I don’t have much neck discomfort. Chi kung was definitely the most effective approach. When my husband took a long exam that, in this day and age (2001), had to be hand-written, he used capsaicin cream for writer’s cramp and that helped considerably.