I had the PT eval from my miracle guy, and he figured my shoulder out in about 15 minutes – and 15 minutes later he had my left arm totally extended – bicep touching my ear – with no pain or stress (outside of some tension in the scapula)! He thinks the shoulder will be completely resolved in about a month, perhaps 5 weeks. All he did was to do some rather painful poking around on my collar bone…

The problem isn't actually in the shoulder – the problem is related to an old broken collar bone in my teen years that wasn't rehabbed properly. Something about that old injury is preventing my left shoulder from really engaging properly. He did explain it and he is sending me an email with the pertinent information to forward to my trainer. His guidance is no over-head lifting at all for now until we strengthen my rotator cuffs. No problems with pushing/pulling, or lower body work – but no over-head work for a bit. The rotator cuff is weak - not because it is injured but because the shoulder isn't working properly due to this collar bone/shoulder joint issue.

The humerus moves properly in the shoulder, but very few of the muscles fire at all and are currently incapable of strengthening because of the old injury. Bill says this is actually a minor problem that is easily solved, but it would have never solved itself. He sees no reason why I won’t be able to finally start building upper body strength when we are done