Pulled Supraspinalis Muscle

[ClaJohaeii]

Greetings,
A couple weeks ago i pulled what i believe to be my left supraspinalis muscle playing hockey. I'm quite familiar with pulled muscles, having played hockey and various other competitive sports since i was a little kid -- but this pull feels different. It just won't go away, or even improve. It's gotten to the point where i can't sleep, because i can't get into a position where it doesn't twinge and hurt. I've done the heat and ice treatments at night, hopped up on ibuprofen, taken some prescription naproxen (from a previously diagnosed degenerative disc problem, L3-L4), and might try takingflexeril(also from the previous disc problem), but so far nothing has worked.

Is there any sort of exercise, or type of deep tissue massage that might help this problem heal? Any OTC drugs i should take?

Thanks for your time,
R

 

[HelpMee]

Where's the pain? - As I'm wondering if you mean supraspinatus?

I'll run with that theory & guess that the pain is running deep across the shoulder. If that's the case, then you can 'hot & cold' the area all day and it may not help because the most common cause of pain in the supraspinatus muscle originates in the neck. It's most likely to be referred pain, but could be a disk injury. Referred pain in the shoulder/ upper scapular area could be from any of the cervical vertebral facet joints, but if it's a disc injury, then most likely between C4 - C7.
You'd probably know bynow if it was a disc prolapse as they often come with weakness (that is not just due to pain),areas of numbness in the shoulder, upper/lower arm or hand/fingers and loss ofone or more reflexes (if anyone's checked it out for you).

There are. however a few other causes of numbness, includingat least 3 possible senarios of something called thoracic outlet syndrome.

In short an osteopathwould most likely be able to sort it out with a few tweaks.

Andrew.

 

[Casey G- still has CRS]

Just realised - we're in the Back Problem Forum - Ooops! []

So ask again - Where exactly is the pain?

And.