I visited the chiro today who specializes in ART, nerve entrapment, and other things. More than one professional athlete I know have told me if anyone can figure out my shoulder dysfunction that he can. According to him my entire left side, everything associated with my left shoulder complex, lats, and scapula, sub-scap, pec minor, etc) is ALL crazy insane tight and so is the fascia. He prescribed a very aggressive version of ART, with a warning that I would be quite sore tomorrow. I am a tough old bird, I can take it! It was...intense but it was interesting to feel how quickly he was able to get places to release.
It wasn't a very long visit, but his treatment made a significant difference in my ROM. He thinks it all goes back to the mountain bike/whiplash injury and then the repeated mtb crashes last year. My prognosis is very good and he thinks it will only take a couple of visits to free everything up :) Most importantly, he said it was clearly a muscular/skeletal problem and not neurological. All of the tight muscles have caused some impingement, especially on the bike, but he really thinks this is all muscular - which is great news!
Time will tell, but I am hopeful. Part of me was beginning to wonder if this was a permanent condition but that fear is receding.
