regression?
Yesterday evening I was just doing something innocuous – moving a teatowel or somesuch – when I felt a sharp pain in the front of my right shoulder. What was unusual this time was that it didn’t go away when I moved the arm back to a neutral position (though it was hardly contorted at the time). The pain only died away slowly over the next couple of hours.
It wasn’t a severe pain, but was pretty uncomfortable, and seemed indicative of something not good happening. Hopefully this is wrong. It followed my first day of the week at school, and I had to be back there today. Drifted through a golden period mid-afternoon where I didn’t seem to be aggravating things at all, just by keeping my shoulder blades back, but this passed unfortunately.
Then it was off to the physio (H), for session 3. This was similar to the last sessions, but with the addition of a ‘new’ exercise: the scapula clench, while holding theraband ends (theraband wrapped around door handle). It was good to get some more direction on how to do this exercise properly though.
During the massage/manipulation, H concentrated on a point of knotted muscle, kind of between the shoulder blade and armpit on the right back. She was amazed at the solid state of this muscle, and the pain when she massaged it was excruciating. It also seemed to trigger intense pain in the point where I’d experienced renewed discomfort the previous evening. H managed to get rid of a lot of the tension, but there was still a ‘knot’ there.
Returning home, I found that the pain from last night seemed to have returned, so took nurofen 400mg.
