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This is probably tl:dr. This is more for me anyway.
About 12 years ago, I was working for a retail store. I worked in the domestics section: towels, sheets, tablecloths, blinds, etc. One day I took it upon myself to organize the blinds section. This required moving them from one section to another. The blinds were supposed to be organized by size. In rearranging them, I managed to hurt my shoulder. The repetitive motion was just too much for it.
Now being the teenager that I was at the time, I didn't know that I should tell someone at the store so that I could be checked out by workman's comp. I just went on assuming that the muscle was inflamed and hoping that it would return to normal.
It never did. There was a nice knot that would form. Though my shoulder itself never went numb, sometimes it felt like the muscle was. I'd go get massages or have Aaron rub my shoulders. they would help, but only temporarily. I began to believe that I'd pinched a nerve and that I'd always have to live with it. Since the pain was so constant, I never thought to bring it up to a doctor. It was simply so part of my everyday life it was no longer abnormal enough to look into.
A little less than a year ago, we found a new doctor that was an osteopath. She asked me about back pain and I told her about my lower back and everything. She proceeded to palpitate my back and then asked if I had shoulder pain. I gave a firm positive1 heh.. She said that she could feel that one of my ribs was out. I received an adjustment that day, which did a world of good, but didn't completely fix the problem. Aaron could pop my back &, we thought, was popping the rib back in. The pain lessened, became less frequent, but never fully went away.
A few months ago, I went in to the doctor's again. This time I was seen by a substitute doctor (who knew there was such a thing??). I told him that I knew the rib was out. More palpitating followed; an adjustment; and then he pushed the rib back in. It didn't hurt, but it wasn't pleasant either. And the muscle became angry. How dare we put things back to the way they were supposed to be!! Heh..
And because the muscles were used to holding the rib out of whack, it slipped back out a week ago. I was not happy. But, last night, in the middle of the night, I rolled over in my sleep. I pushed into the pillow. Lo and behold, it popped back in on its own!! I am so thrilled! I am so thankful that it went back in! My back and should is very happy today!!
About 12 years ago, I was working for a retail store. I worked in the domestics section: towels, sheets, tablecloths, blinds, etc. One day I took it upon myself to organize the blinds section. This required moving them from one section to another. The blinds were supposed to be organized by size. In rearranging them, I managed to hurt my shoulder. The repetitive motion was just too much for it.
Now being the teenager that I was at the time, I didn't know that I should tell someone at the store so that I could be checked out by workman's comp. I just went on assuming that the muscle was inflamed and hoping that it would return to normal.
It never did. There was a nice knot that would form. Though my shoulder itself never went numb, sometimes it felt like the muscle was. I'd go get massages or have Aaron rub my shoulders. they would help, but only temporarily. I began to believe that I'd pinched a nerve and that I'd always have to live with it. Since the pain was so constant, I never thought to bring it up to a doctor. It was simply so part of my everyday life it was no longer abnormal enough to look into.
A little less than a year ago, we found a new doctor that was an osteopath. She asked me about back pain and I told her about my lower back and everything. She proceeded to palpitate my back and then asked if I had shoulder pain. I gave a firm positive1 heh.. She said that she could feel that one of my ribs was out. I received an adjustment that day, which did a world of good, but didn't completely fix the problem. Aaron could pop my back &, we thought, was popping the rib back in. The pain lessened, became less frequent, but never fully went away.
A few months ago, I went in to the doctor's again. This time I was seen by a substitute doctor (who knew there was such a thing??). I told him that I knew the rib was out. More palpitating followed; an adjustment; and then he pushed the rib back in. It didn't hurt, but it wasn't pleasant either. And the muscle became angry. How dare we put things back to the way they were supposed to be!! Heh..
And because the muscles were used to holding the rib out of whack, it slipped back out a week ago. I was not happy. But, last night, in the middle of the night, I rolled over in my sleep. I pushed into the pillow. Lo and behold, it popped back in on its own!! I am so thrilled! I am so thankful that it went back in! My back and should is very happy today!!