Chronic Pain/Strain Mid Thoracic Region

[King Benny the Happy]

I have a client who suffered a acute/severe spinal thoracic sprain/strain on her left side erectors/mid rhomboid region. Her muscles have "locked" up like a solid tube, raised from her occiput down to L5.. I can feel the muscles just lateral to her spinal column. She complains of burning sometimes, and a tired area of pain. She has difficulty holding her are straight out in front of her. She said it hurts in the back (rhomboids, and around under her scap.. lat/seratus area..
I have done trigger point, fulcrum pressure points, deep tissue after heat.
I am puzzled.. She has been suffering from this off and on fr 10 mnths??
Any suggestions?

Thanks :?:

 

[J-BUS]

A stretched muscle can be more painful than a shortened muscle. I would guess her rhomboids are stretched and her medial rotators of the shoulder are tight. Are the shoulders medially rotated? Have you worked p. minor and subscapularis? When you say you have worked deep tissue etc. what muscles are you working? As far as the erectors... what is her posture like? Normal cervical, kyphotic and lordotic curves? Is there pelvic tilt? anterior or posterior? Are you working bilaterally, or just on the side that is tight?

Please give us some more info, but those are the things I would be thinking from the description you gave.

LaLoba

 

[Skittles]

anterior pelvic tilt
forward rolled shoulders
left side elevated and right side dropped

I have been working, scalenes, traps,rhomboids, SITS, erectors, lat dor, lower lumbar, glutes all on the left side.

Heat therapy

just a chronic problem she has and she will be fine for months and then lift something or strain it and she cant use the arm because it hurts her too much fr about 3 days...

thanks

 

[DAVENANN A]

thanks for the update.
i just read this for the first time. i've got to say i was thinking maybe a chiro adjustment may help.
good for your client.

some things are out of our hands...

 

[the only dode]

what i thought was really cool is how VITAMINS and MINERALS can effect the body..
I had no idea that a muscle could remain hypertonic for months and having a vitamin deficiency at the same time could effect a body so much.
I love these vitamins... and my client is pain free, sleeping well, full of energy.. and that is all that counts.
I asked my DC if i could recommend that clients supplement with vitamins and minerals. She said not to diagnose anything, maybe suggest seeing a nutritionalist, or their doctor to add them in.