The Center for Healing Injury and Pain

Musculoskeletal Medicine for Boulder
Gary B. Clark, MD

Dr. Clark is trained and experienced in basic osteopathic-style musculoskeletal physical diagnosis and therapies. His approach emphasizes the knowledge and use of functional anatomy. He definitively examines and confirms skeletal, ligament, tendon, and myofascial injury and may use ultrasound imaging for confirmation and documentation. He integrates various therapies, including manipulation and other osteopathic therapies, prolotherapy, physical therapy, myofascial release bodywork (also known as Rolfing or structural integration), and foot orthotic prosthetic manufacturing and fitting.

Disabling disorders of the patient’s structural and emotional function result from injuries that are often linked to some unfortunate traumatic event, structural maldevelopment, or natural, ‘wear and tear’ degeneration. These disorders diminish the patient’s quality of life and ability to make a living or live a life, independently. We can actually heal, significantly modify, or possibly prevent most of these underlying injuries.

A fundamental key to resolving these disabling injury problems and preventing further injury is our obtaining a systematic medical history and performing a thorough physical examination based on the body’s structural function.

Several of our approaches to pain therapy (e.g. osteopathic manipulation, cranioscaral therapy, myofascial release, and prolotherapy) help to resolve chronic, recurrent headaches. This includes headaches of several varieties, such as migraine, cluster, tension, and allergy.

Along with the musculoskeletal approaches to these problems, we incorporate sphenopalatine ganglion block therapy. This is similar to other nerve block therapies that we perform but this specifically is aimed at numbing the nerve ganglion that are involved in regulating the autonomic nerve function of the head and face, reducing the symptoms of chronic sinusitis and related allergic symptoms of post nasal drip, congestion, sinus pressure, and headache.

Dr. Clark received BA and MD degrees from the University of Colorado. He completed internship training in Pediatrics from Yale - New Haven Hospital and is Board Certified in Anatomic, Clinical, and Neuro Pathology. He has a very broad clinical training and experience in Musculoskeletal Medicine and Varicose Vein Therapy. He is a member in good standing of the American Medical Association, Colorado and Boulder County Mdeical Societies, American Association of Orthopedic Medicine, and American College of Phlebology. He is an instructor in medical ethics at the University of Colorado Center for Health Sciences.

Call (303) 444-5131 to schedule an appointment or for more information.