Neck pain update: After babying my neck, the pain is mostly gone. It's still there, but not stabby painful, just more a strained painful. But it definitely wasn't just a strained muscle as at it's worse, my arm started hurting. It was definitely the pinched nerve.
So I need to be super careful about that and the moment I start having pain, hit that cooling pad and anti-inflammatories and just hope for the best.