Yikes Withim, you certainly went through the wringer! Once he is sure that it IS a frozen shoulder I am sure he will order the MRI - but I am not in any hurry to get it due to the expense - I wish I had checked this out LAST year when I had already spent my deductible but I wanted to give all of the work a chance to have an effect... It doesn't hurt which seems to fly in the face of everything I've read about frozen shoulders. Sure it gets my attention when I am trying to push its limit, but it still isn't what I would call real pain. There is certainly something that is impeding my range of motion - but that wouldn't have ever become truly apparent until I started working on overhead lifting such as push presses and over-head squats - and found that it is currently not possible for me to use proper form because of that arm (which means I must to other things). It was also apparent that left arm wasn't strengthening like my right arm. So we will see.

Part of the PT evaluation is to provide him more information to assist in the diagnosis, which makes sense to me. He works in pretty close cooperation with a really good PT/Sports injury outpatient center at my hospital to help him in these situations.