Shoulder/Lat Issue is driving me insane.
I've been dealing with a right shoulder issue (impingment) for awhile now and have been down many roads for recovery (massage, ART, chiropractic etc.)
A little background...a couple years ago I played in a recreational dodgeball league (most painful of all sports I've ever played) and tore a muscle in my upper back (unsure of which muscle exactly). Not knowing at the time I had done this I played through several weeks of intense burning pain in my upper back (rhomboid area) and referred pain down my arm into my elbow. Fast forward to now and I still have a good sized adhesion in my upper back, a chunk or scar tissue infested muscle. I've had massage therapists hammer on it, electrostim acupuncture etc. It won't go away.
I also went through a period of time about 1 year ago where my upper traps got so tight I was in constant pain and got treatment on that as well. Since the original injury I've been dealing with a burning sensation in the area of that scar tissue, brought on most commonly during the preparation of food. That burning sensation was recently diagnosed as a nerve irritation by my ART practitioner. He also found some tightness in my pecs (not surprising) where there was actual trophic changes in the tissue quality. He described it as grisly...Also noted some tightness in my upper traps, levator scapulae and surrounding cervical spine musculature.
I can feel trigger points, not entirely painful though but big knots (possibly scar tissue?) in the musculature around/on my scapula, including most notably what I'm pretty sure I've nailed down is my teres minor. The muscle travels through the top of my armpit, inserts on my humerus and is intensely irritated mostly by chins or pulls. Whenever I work on my lats they also get very tender and sore in the non-traditional sense, the tissue quality changes as they recover.
I've been doing prehab/rehab work with MM and I/O as well as spending $$$ on treatments but I'm having a heck of a time recovering from this.....I would be forever indebted to you Bill if you could give me an idea of anything really.
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