There may be light at the end of the tunnel - and it isn't the train about to run me over.

Wednesday when Tony stretched my shoulder there's only one position that is still tight and very painful. I was SO happy when the second one didn't hurt - I could feel the tight, but not painful. (the other stretches he does no longer hurts, there were just two I dreaded) We'll see what the prognosis is when he measures my range of motion. I get heat/stim, ultrasound, PT stretching, my exercises, and ice at the end at every session, currently 3 times per week.

My PT is with the same therapist (I believe he owns the clinic) and there are 2 aides, so there's consistency with therapy.

Rocknroll - it seems to me you should be having some one on one time with your therapist at every session - pretty much they're stretching you out, contorting your body in a way that it should but doesn't want to go. Either that or you need something specific like heat/stim just to get you able to move first. It seems my PT spends one on one time with every patient. I can feel greater range of motion with my exercises AFTER I'm stretched out (medieval torturer that he is), than before. Recovery is slow, so don't be discouraged. I think the stretching with supervision is important - I've been caught using bad posture when I start on multiple occasions, usually it's the other shoulder patient that rags on me.