Shoulder progress :)

[OakLeaf]

I would ask him specifically what he means, unless someone here can help. In my experience, DOs and LMTs use different language than MDs and PTs when it comes to describing muscle composition, injury and neuromuscular function. What you might find in a cursory online search is almost certainly unduly alarming, because it's going to be MD-type stuff.

Bottom line, does it matter? It's going to be slow and very possibly incomplete progress. You want a ballpark idea of how far you're going to be able to get and how long it's going to take, obviously, but does it make much difference the particular language they use to describe the sequelae of your old injuries?

[Catrin]

I would ask him specifically what he means, unless someone here can help. In my experience, DOs and LMTs use different language than MDs and PTs when it comes to describing muscle composition, injury and neuromuscular function. What you might find in a cursory online search is almost certainly unduly alarming, because it's going to be MD-type stuff.

Bottom line, does it matter? It's going to be slow and very possibly incomplete progress. You want a ballpark idea of how far you're going to be able to get and how long it's going to take, obviously, but does it make much difference the particular language they use to describe the sequelae of your old injuries?

Good question, and I had wondered if there was a different vocabulary being used. In the end it matters if it helps me to understand what is the root of the problem and the odds of measurable improvement. Right now I am trying to understand the odds of the outcome for more aggressive treatment. More conservative methods don't appear to be working from what I can tell, though those methods have certainly decreased certain types of pain. Would more aggressive treatment fix the problems or just add to them? That has to be determined. Then again, I've got to be careful to not get lost in the details! There are large calcium deposits that are easy enough to remove from what I've been told, but that is only one layer of a complex condition.

Thanks for getting me thinking