Seth,

My husband completed his radiation on 12/05/06, he only had radiation and he gets neck cramps. They don't happen that often, but seem to be pretty painful when the do happen. From reading this site I gather they are a fairly common side effect of radiation. He has had both lymphedema treatment with both the exercises and massage and acupuncture and neither seemed to help with the occasional cramps much. The lymphedema treatment was more for his swelling and acupuncture was for his neck and shoulder pains, both seemed to help maybe only minimally. The cramps actually seemed to increase somewhat the couple times he had some form of a steroid injection - a couple times for his skin which was also affected by the radiation and once for his shoulder - it didn't help his shoulder, but did seem to worsen the neck cramping. I think the exercise probably helps the most and I am not sure that my husband would agree that anything helps, but they don't seem to occur that often. Wish there was a better answer.