In one of my not so good years, I was in three car accidents – all in the same year. Even more bizarre, each accident was a replica of the previous one (rear-ended at a stop light).  For months afterwards, my painful, stiff neck lingered like that unpopular party guest who’s the last to leave (luckily it was nothing worse but it wasn’t great either).
I was referred to a hospital specialist who, in a non-negotiable sort of way, told me I had a 95% chance of never being able to turn my head to the left again (rather depressing") but my gut told me this guy in a white coat was not right.
I’m a second and third opinion person, so when a friend said “you have to see my acupuncturist, Fi, she’s fantastic”, I took my totally stiff aching neck to her and here’s what happened. In the first session, she left me wrapped in a blanket and “pin cushioned” in a pretty, luminous room with pine tree views from the big window. Seal was playing in the background and I drifted off wondering if these fine little needles were actually going to do any good" She came back some Seal tracks later and asked how did I feel"  (Dozy and a bit spaced out…but in a good way!)  Then, because the proof is in the pudding, she measured how far I could rotate my neck to the left, having measured it first when I first walked in.
I managed to turn it by about 45 degrees, a (vast) improvement compared to when I’d walked...