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.
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