PT discovery -This makes no sense...

[Catrin]

Wow Kathi, that was a very complex chain of cause and effect! My neck injury affecting my shoulder does, when I think about it, make some sense. I just thought that my neck had healed enough to get past that kind of effect on other muscle groups. I have certainly learned over the last couple of years that the cause of pain is very often someplace different than we think - and that was one of the reasons I posted this to begin with.

Pretty amazing that your SI joint affected your shoulder! So glad to read that all calmed down.

My PT just extended my period of physical therapy...it wasn't much of a surprise but I HAD hoped that 4 weeks would be long enough. Still better than surgery though, still rooting for my PT (my dr. isn't so sure that I won't need to eventually have shoulder surgery).

[OakLeaf]

Totally makes sense. Really your SI joint is connected more tightly to your shoulders than it is to your lower extremities! Solid sheets of muscle all the way up, and rib and spine joints that just don't bend in certain directions!

My DOM explained how these things tend to cross sides along the fascial lines. Right neck, left shoulder, right T-spine, left L-spine, right hip, left ankle. He says I'm textbook.


I'm hanging in there. Honestly except for a couple of sensitive spots (and if you've had tattoos you already know where they are), acupuncture is almost never painful. Occasionally the muscles will twitch or thrum a little bit, rarely they'll release in a major way, mostly it's just relaxing and energizing.

Hope you two are continuing on your recovery too!

[Catrin]

Totally makes sense. Really your SI joint is connected more tightly to your shoulders than it is to your lower extremities! Solid sheets of muscle all the way up, and rib and spine joints that just don't bend in certain directions!

My DOM explained how these things tend to cross sides along the fascial lines. Right neck, left shoulder, right T-spine, left L-spine, right hip, left ankle. He says I'm textbook.


I'm hanging in there. Honestly except for a couple of sensitive spots (and if you've had tattoos you already know where they are), acupuncture is almost never painful. Occasionally the muscles will twitch or thrum a little bit, rarely they'll release in a major way, mostly it's just relaxing and energizing.

Hope you two are continuing on your recovery too!

Right neck and left shoulder eh? This is very interesting, as the worst of my whiplash injury was to the right side of my neck, and my left shoulder is the most problematical. Thanks for those!

That is good to know about the acupuncture Oak, I've got an....issue with needles so it just sounds terrible to me! Glad that it is helping you though!

[ny biker]

Last year I found that the pain in my neck went away when I rolled a lacrosse ball on my upper back just inside my shoulder blade.

I never questioned if it made sense, was just happy that I figured out how to make the pain go away. Even happier that it only cost the price of a lacrosse ball.