+++++++++Updated+++++++++ Thank you everyone for your comments. They were very encouraging and helpful. As of three months ago my wife and I visited a Muscle Doctor (Physiatrist?) in Philadelphia who for all practical purposes cured my spasms. He was written up in the Washington Post ( www.washingtonpost.com ) He has worked on Olympic ice skaters, Hockey Players, and the Philadelphia Union (professional soccer). It has been almost three months and my life is almost back to where it was five years ago before I started having spasms. Dr Mathews worked with tools on my back and neck for four two hour sessions in two days. Through his dynamic deductive muscle research methods (I would call it the Mathews Method) determined how to turn my spasms on and then eventually how to turn them off. He thinks my spasms occur because of a car accident I had when I was in twelvth grade where I got a whiplash injury but never got xrays of my neck. He saw on my neck MRIs what looked like a fractured vertabrae in my C2 that probably healed after the car accident 17 years ago and then was possibly refractured during two bad ski accidents that I had five or so years ago with similar whiplash injuries to my neck. I did see spine and orthopaedic surgeons about the herniated discs in my neck but they disagreed on whether surgery should be done that high on my neck. They also were inconclusive whether those herniated discs would cause my spasms or not. They decided to do nothing and in the <b>…</b>