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Don, Jeanette, et al... After doing the "chiropractor/orthopedist-thing" and being told the stiffness and pain in my neck was arthritis, I was given a handful of pain meds (tossed 'em in the wastebasket 'cause they were incompatible with my PD drugs) by the ortho and advised to have weekly manipulation by the chiro (couldn't afford it) I devised an admittedly simplistic way of treating the discomfort. AND.. it works well for me. When my neck hurts and becomes stiff (almost always simultaneously) I stop what I'm doing, go to my bedroom, and lie down for 20 minutes or so with a heating pad under my neck. Figuring that music-is-a-great-medicine, I turn on the bedside radio, grab a kitty to commune with, and RELAX. Uhhhh.... I consider the kitty to be optional for others, but for ME, it's a part of the treatment! <smile> Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Leo Fuhr Sent: Thursday, July 23, 1998 6:01 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: Chiropractic and PD 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]>