It is probably best to check with the doc or nurse at the radiotherapy treatments if and when John can start doing some neck excercises and also some light massage to help the stiffness.

My neck has been really really stiff for many months - mainly due to the fact that when I asked what I could do to help relieve it I wasn't advised that I could be doing exercises.

It was only later after I learnt from this forum, many months after I finished radiotherapy, that I could be doing exercises and getting light massage from a physio that it slowly started to ease the tightness around my neck/throat.

Good luck

Karen





46 yrs:
Apr 07-SCC 80% entire tongue removed,T4N1M0
Neck/D,Jaw Split, Trache 2 ops,PEG 3.5yrs
30 x rad,6 x Cisplatin,
30 x HBO
Apr'08- flap Recon + ORN Mandibulectomy
(hip bone to reconstruct jaw)
Oct'08 1 Plate out-jaw
Mar'09 Debulk flap
Sep'09/Jan&Nov'10/Feb&Jun'11/Jan&Jul'12/Oct'13/April'14-More surgery