Re:ongoing scapular/shoulder pain advice

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Sat Nam Krishan Shiva,

 

Uugg! I feel for you. Ongoing pain and not feeling like you can

afford to get treatment for it and even if you can it often doesn't

remedy the problem.

 

Ever since summer solstice I've been nursing an upper spine

misalignment as well. I see a chiro for temporary relief, but it

returns soon after. Sat Nam Rasayan is beneficial for the pain on

my right side, but within a few hours of it, the leftside blows out

on me! So this tells me there is an energetic process at work that

is not working according to the sheduale I'd like my healing to

occur within!

 

I can offer some advice:

 

Try to figure out whether this is a muscle only related pain (such

as an inlivened triggerpoint in the muscle) or an inflammation of

the soft tissue or is it a spinal misalignment? Or both?

 

1)When you take your neck through it's full range of motion, do you

feel a "pinching" within the spinal joints? This is a misalignment

in the spine or a "locking" of the joint. If it is at about

C7,T1,T2 you can try doing an isometric type exercise to open the

joint.

(Rather than go through it now why don't you email me back if this

is the case and I'll go through it for you)

 

Unfortunately where you are describing the pain, it can often be a

twisting of the rib, which is a nawing, relentlus pain with quite a

bit of limited range of motion through the neck, due to the pull

from this twist. This pretty much requires a chiro adjustment or

Muscle energy techniques (Osteopathic treatment of the spine).

 

2)If it's only muscle (which is easier to work with) when you go

through neck or shoulder joint range of motion, you may feel a

burning or bruisey type feel in the muscle, pain may increase in the

muscle due to really awakening the trigger point as the muscle is

stretched, or because you've just stretched inflamed tissue. During

use of the muscle (contracting it) if pain occurs it suggests a

tendonitis.

 

Take note of what actions increase the pain and where the pain is

felt and let me know.

 

I can give you more specifics when it gets narrowed down a bit, in a

really "physical sense" right off the top of my head, you might

try...

 

a) head rolls if it feels like a stretch and not an aggravation

 

b) stretching the pectorals, hold for aleast 1.5 minutes (allow the

fascia to stretch) and stretch the front of the neck. These are the

2 main culprits of upper back pain in terms of shortened muscles

that then aggravate the back muscles.

 

c)Ice! the pain. If it's inflamed this will lessen the inflamation

and pain, if it's an enlivened triggerpoint this will calm it down.

Stretch before the ice though.

 

Let me know on or off line,

Sat Sangeet