seems one of our big boys, sammy had trouble with his neck - he would get his vertibrae in a 'kink' as i remember.  if you do a search on neck in 'ask a vet', you might find some answers from pam, our resident vet.  sammy's story is under fightingforsammy i believe, and elizabeth went to great lengths to help him get un-kinked. 

maybe alternate warm heat and ice??  our jane used to get this in her upper and sometimes lower spine, and we had enormous success with acupuncture.  time and rest might be enough, but if not, i'd see if the vet might recommend some muscle relaxers.

charon & spirit gayle

OH GOSH! 

Yes!  I had it happen before....scared the bejeebies out of me!  (still makes me shudder) Comet was getting up from laying down. It was her neck.

But in my case, I had just done a wellness xray about 10 days prior.  She had no symptoms of anything, I was just doing it.  The radiologists said she had diskosponylitis in the neck (infection of the disc).  Since it was a partial xray of the neck, we did a better one and it came back fine.  So, we all blew it off......UNTIL the scream about 10 days later!

My gut tells me it was a herniated disc and not disko even tho we treated it as disko.  But having had one myself in the cervical, damned if they aren't painful initially.  (enough to go sit in the ER for 4 hours!) 

The best treatment is an NSAID (rimadyl or something similar). And heat and ice therapy like Charon said.  It usually gets better once you get the inflammation under control. 

I hope that helps. But I'd check with your vet to be safe.

Here's hoping she gets better soon!