This just went on way to long and was not showing improvement. Exception was post deep tissue massage would give relief for a day or two.
I have massage Monday thank heaven!!
You need to give massage time. You are not fixed on the first treatment because your body is used to being tight.
I found after 4 treatments (go every week if you can, ask for stretches to do between visits) and if it’s just a compressed nerve in the muscle, you will see improvement.
It would shock you how much pain you get from a trapped nerve in the muscle.
The one in my trap was so bad, I thought for sure I had a disc issue. I got an X-ray, but it didn’t look like I had an issue even though I have thinner discs from a head bent down position all day.
I tried everything to relieve it, stretching, hot tub (why I bought it), you tube videos.
Then one day a powerlifting customer I was complaining to, told me to go get deep tissue massage. Go every week till it’s gone.
I went from taking opioids, to zero pain now.
When it did happen, my shoulder joint would swell and freeze up, I’d feel grinding pain in my neck when it moved, no position was comfortable more than 10 minutes.
It was progressive.
At first I thought I had a shoulder injury. I didn’t. The compressed nerve was causing a frozen shoulder, maybe trying to protect itself, or the shoulder was getting sore, because the trap wasn’t moving properly.
Then I started to get a stabbing feeling on the top of my forearm.
Then sometimes, I’d feel pain down the back of my tri.
It radiated down both directions of the nerve as it become more compressed.
This was over a 6 year time period. I have a great pain tolerance, so I kept ignoring it, hoping stretching or tb500, or bpc157, or gh would help it. Maybe deca, lol.
Anyhow I’d exhaust that route before giving up.
Surgery would be the very last thing I would do.
