Neck Pain

eck pain (Whiplash, Muscle Spasm, Ligament Sprain, Tendinitis)

Neck pain can result from injuries to tendons or ligaments and often gets labeled whiplash, muscle spasm, ligament sprain, or tendinitis. Patients suffering from these conditions are often treated with muscle relaxers, oral steroids, physical therapy, or massage sometimes with little benefit. Some patients resort to injected steroids or trigger point injections for the muscle spasms. While some of these therapies can be effective, if the ligament or tendons are not addressed, the patient will fail to ever find long-term relief. Unfortunately, MRI or Xray imaging of the neck and back rarely shows a sprained ligament or strained tendon so patients are simply told by most mainstream orthopedic doctors that they must live with their pain. It takes a skilled osteopathic exam to manually diagnose the pathology behind muscle spasms and whiplash in the neck. Once the true cause of the injury can be assessed, then patients can be injected, if needed, with bioactive plasma at the site of the tendon or ligament injury and find resolution potentially from whiplash or muscle spasms that could otherwise last a lifetime. The osteopathic physicians from Aspen Integrative Medicine have a mastery at understanding these kinds of whiplash and muscle spasms in the neck due to ligament and tendon injuries. Osteopathic manual therapy and precisely placed injectional treatments of prolotherapy, prolozone, or PRP (as bioactive plasma) can significantly reduce the pain and discomfort associated with the conditions of whiplash, muscle spasm, ligament sprain, or tendinitis.