Robaxin

Let me tell you about Robaxin. In the trenches of musculoskeletal medicine, especially in primary care and ortho, you reach for tools that work predictably. For acute, painful muscle spasms—the kind that twists a patient’s back into a question mark or locks a shoulder after a fall—one of those reliable tools is methocarbamol, branded most commonly as Robaxin. It’s not a new, flashy biologic. It’s a workhorse. A centrally-acting skeletal muscle relaxant that’s been around since the late 1950s, which means we have decades of clinical experience with it, for better or worse.