David Musnick, MD

I have multiple issues stemming from a spinal fusion I had in 1976 to treat scoliosis. For many years I was active and athletic, but over time things started to go awry. For the past 20 years, chronic low back and hip pain has had me feeling hopeless and depressed and cutting out more and more activities until at times I didn’t do very much at all. I’ve gone through a litany of doctors, practitioners, drugs, tests, procedures, injections and exercises. Some of these didn’t help at all, most helped a little bit for a short time, but it seemed that no one doctor or practitioner could ever put all the pieces together and get to the root of my problem.
Last year my Feldenkrais practitioner suggested visiting Dr. Musnick and investigating prolotherapy. Dr. Musnick spent more than an hour evaluating me and determined that prolotherapy would help stabilize my SI joint ligament. It was hard to spend the money, but it was worth the cost because now, after 5 prolotherapy treatments, my pain is reduced by 70−80% and my life is so much better. Now with my SI joint stabilized I find that many days I have almost no pain at all and the relief affords me the opportunity to do regular strengthening exercises and stretches that keep everything just about pain-​free. I still pay close attention to how I move, what I lift, etc, and it’s ok that this will be something I have to manage for the rest of my life, but the relief Dr. Musnick has provided me is priceless. Getting in and out of bed, in and out of the car, bending down to feed my dogs or empty the dishwasher, carrying a laundry basket — all of these daily things that in the past shot a jolt of lightening pain through my low back are now doable. I jog now, and even backpack… things that were never even on my radar.

I completely agree with Bruce, Debbie and Sara! Run as fast as you can. After a horrible car accident, I was referred to him as a specialist. He under diagnosed me. Did not listened to me. Inaccurately noted what I had said in Previous appointments, (my husband was with me and confirm this). Sent me, no bullied me into seeing a chiropracter, with missed Traumatic Head Injury, torn Shoulder and crushed lower back! Which of course re injured me and made me exponentially worse!!! Instead of investigating why I was worse, he yelled at the Chiropractor and sent me again, which of course made symptoms even worse. I then I sought advice from my primary Doctor. Who agreed the treatment was completely inaccurate and referred me to a legitimate competent accident Specialist.

Run away from this doctor and spare your time, money, body & energy! He touts himself as the one to cure you when no other doctor can, but the only thing that’s off the charts is his ego. He is the most arrogant, condescending physician I know and unfortunately his talents are the exact opposite. He promotes his prolotherapy and laser treatments as a cure-​all for every ailment and unfortunately after wasting thousands of dollars, I’m worse off than I was before I saw him. He doesn’t accept insurance and no insurance company will reimburse for his very expensive treatments and now I know why – because they don’t work and are a complete waste of money. None of the other patients I spoke with in his waiting room had any better results – yet all also got sucked into his speech about how great his is and were desperate enough to give it a try. He will try to convince you about all of the patients he has helped, yet that is just his arrogance speaking. Please save your time, effort, and money and go elsewhere. What a waste of everything.

I was in a car accident over five years ago which caused major problems with my neck. After being told by practitioner after practitioner that nothing could be done I arrived in Dr. Musnick’s office (thank goodness!). He was compassionate, listened, sought information, and didn’t give up on treating me until all issues were corrected. He utilizes many modalities of treatment, both Western and alternative. He is open minded, has extraordinarily high standards for himself and everyone he refers you to, and spends the time to talk with other practitioners to truly understand what is going on. This is the kind of doctor I would want treating me for anything that might need fixing. One physical therapist I went to said she would only use Dr. Musnick for Prolo. Another said Dr. Musnick was the best at Prolo in the state of Washington, if not the nation, and, in his experience as a physical therapist, the outcome of patients treated by Dr. Musnick was dramatically superior to those treated by other doctors. Dr. Musnick fixed my neck and allowed me to return to an active lifestyle.

Reading these reviews and I cannot believe we saw the same doctor. I felt very rushed, bullied, and insulted. Granted, I didn’t seek his care for the Prolotherapy treatments, so perhaps that is the reason.
Since he doesn’t participate with any insurance programs, the office visit is totally out of pocket. The cost is based on his perception of time spent and health history. This seemed reasonable to me because I really wanted someone to «take the time it takes» to clearly understand my health issues. Since I am paying for the time directly, I thought that would be the case. Wrong. He talked what HE wanted to talk about; many of the topics didn’t even relate to my health at all. I have been to conventional medicine doctors who somehow were able to hear my whole health history in the measly ten or fifteen minutes allotted to an office visit by insurance.
After a fragmented and disjointed evaluation, he charged me the maximum amount for our visit. Even though he only took about 75 minutes total on our visit (and most of those minutes weren’t spent on my health issues)! I was assured we would have 1 ½ to 2 hours, and he practically pushed me out the door. Literally, I was in my car driving away an hour and a half after I set foot in his office.
People… if you’re in pain, or suffering from a chronic health issue, and need to share your personal and private information, I would not trust this doctor to listen.
Save your money and self respect! Move on.