Re: your cervical issue. My husband is a year and a half out of his last radiation treatment and just this week he had a steroid injection for severe neck pain due to a bulging disc and bone deterioration to the spine, most likely from the radiation. The injection gave him immediate relief from pain and they will start up his physical therapy again. He was getting swallow therapy and stretching for a few months at the beginning, but that was cancelled since the doc thought it wasn't doing much good. They should have never stopped the PT. He still can't swallow and will have the PEG forever, but the neck stretching and massage would have helped him.