Shoulder pain/muscle waisting

My shoulder /arm had been in pain almost a month and muscle waisting. Sida worked for a little but the pain is bk. It's like I barely move and I end up tearing a tendon or pulling a muscle. Seems like muscle waisting is what's happening. Can't even lift 5 pound weight or move that arm lack of range of motion. Doc says it's fine. How long can it take to rebuild muscle from waisting and wt to try? Wt to take. My knees even pop and seem to move out of place when walking it's awful. I take fish oil 2x daily and glucosamine chondroitin for bone health bt what can I use to rebuild muscle??

And - goggle image a "shoulder tendon diagram".

There are seven tendons to the shoulder joint, identify them, learn where they are and feel them. Massage per above post accordingly. Try not to let frozen shoulder set in. Its to painful to move prob- but massaging the tendons and their muscle will help exercise each one without actually lifting for now.

Carefully use-lay on a tennis ball on the floor for shoulder blades or put in sock and put between you and a wall.

Post Edited (astroman) : 11/1/2020 2:25:42 PM (GMT-7)

I tore both rot cuffs also with no lyme dx 25 years ago. Started using the left for everything then that tore. Cortisone shots did mimimal. Massage at a chiro for one year and ultra sound made them bearable but with limited motion for years after. Clicked forever too.

Not till 8 years ago did I learn of muscle / tendon release just before lyme treatment. Then learned on my own. Now 95% better right, 85% improved left side. No more noise. Left feels heavy some days after working out.

You two have a better chance of faster recovery with modern recourses.

I just did eight pull-ups a few hours ago, had no ooompf in me today as I did twelve last week. Then I remember I could only do a couple ten years ago on a good day. I made a point to improve on those last thanksgiving.

My hips used to make snapping sounds to...........at least for two decades.

Lyme gave me adult acquired scoliosis, its minimal, but there, which required some guessing and trials on back re-hab. I do lumbar extensions weekly ( a reverse sit up working against gravity on a 45 degree inclined bench).

I physically re-habbed pretty much my entire body starting with my hands/wrists and forearms at a hand therapist since you need that working to fix everything else by yourself. That therapist said I need the book "Trigger Point Therapy" by Clair Davis, so I got it and learned.

Spine was next, then outward. I saw Chiros and muscle therapists , drilling them with questions and picked up after they hit a "road block" on me or when health ins would no longer cover more visits. So I learned a little bit here and there not all from one provider and I learned their different techniques eventually creating some of my own.

I owe it to the just out of school hand therapist who recommended the book which started it all.

Yoga is just forced stretching. But you cant really stretch tissue that is stuck or tendons that have slightly calcified. That is whats different in some lymies vs the general population. It needs to be warmed up with pressure till it releases. Tendons take a long time to break down calcification vs stuck muscle if thats what happened.

I was told by this idiot rheumatologist that I had ehlers-danlos syndrome hyper mobility and marfan syndrome lol dude said any diagnosis because he couldn't find one and swore I couldn't have late stage lyme or if hv arthritis and been swollen as if u can see arthritis !yet I'm stiff as heck maybe when I was a kid I could bend like that not these days tho. He refused to believe I had lyme or bart and said I would have looked awful or sick . What a quack .

One thing about various versions of tight tissue release is it helps your immune system and even your herbs or ABX do their job.

Tight tissue is like a dam for blood flow. Break the dam. It makes a difference. Its tissue detox.

And we've all spent so much time in agony laying on the couch, floor, bed, might as well do something useful with this time.