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Don Diswinka wrote in part: ---------- > I see a chiropractor every 14 days for a vertebra problem in my neck due > to car accidents. > (Actually it was a hit from Bruce's PC flying CAP LOCK KEYBOARD or hum! > It could have been trying to watch the Pentium II snail to long in Gina's > new Gateway G6-400). The regular doctors have failed in correcting any > problems with this situation as their only solution is to prescribe > muscle relaxers when I get a completely stiff neck. This medication does > not solve the stiffness at all. Not much fun turning the whole body > during 10 weeks just to turn your head in any direction. Mind you the > muscle relaxers put me in lala land. ( Hans, did they really toast the > bunny?) > The only relief I get is when the chiropractor continually returns the > neck vertebra off the nerve. Since seeing a chiropractor regularly I have > yet to have a stiff neck in 8 years. > Don 49/2 Do you have a movement disorder neuro? My neuro when questioned about seeing a chiropractor for manipulation of my stiff neck responded, "I don't recommend manipulation for a person with Parkinson's" When I asked about massage, he said that would be fine. My pd initial symptoms were frozen shoulder and extremely stiff, sore neck. When I'd tried chiropractic and muscle relaxers, adjustments caused alot of pain and the relaxers of the "natural herb" variety did send me to sleep or made me "silly". Another thing that helps the rigidity of my neck which comes and goes along with the amt of stress and the time of dose of sinemetCR are the neck/shoulder exercises frm my first neuro who I had seen previoiusly for migraines. If I do this 15-20 min series of exercise regularly, my neck and shoulders feel great. Jeanette Fuhr 47/8mo <[log in to unmask]>