January...must be time for Physical Therapy again! (long)

[Catrin]

Ugh. No personal experience here either. Hope you get it resolved soon.

I would note (and this is very much my personal current experience) that the ENTIRE shoulder girdle functions as a unit, and if one thing is out of balance, nothing else will work properly; if one thing is out of balance for a long time, EVERYTHING is going to need correction. That's everything from scalenes and SCMs through the intercostals down to the diaphragm. They'll need to be targeted with myofascial release, stretching, balanced strengthening, possibly with direct manual realignment ...

Good luck.

Good point Oak, and I need to keep that in mind. I DO know that more often than not my scapula on that side has some kind of sensation or another. It's been that way for years, long before I got off the couch. Dr. thinks there is atrophy in the muscles attached to that shoulder but my ROM isn't THAT restricted. Perhaps it doesn't take much, I really don't know. Thankfully everything on my right side appears to be developing normally - and THAT was the side most impacted by the whiplash last year.

My hospital has a device that images the shoulder complex in far more detail/depth than a normal x-ray, but he isn't ready to send me there as it exposes much more of the body to radiation than a normal x-ray.

My trainer has been focusing on balanced strengthening to try and get my left side to respond, as well as teaching me multiple approaches to myofascial release and stretching. About the only thing that hasn't been attempted is direct manual realignment, but if my dr. is right it is probably too early for that. I looked up PT exercises for frozen shoulders and I've been doing all that, and then some, for months now.

I do wonder what impact riding has on that shoulder, if any. My riding position is so upright however that I am not overly concerned about that...