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Originally Posted by elap
Hi radtech,
Same or similar issue with me as well. My shoulders drift up and forward unconsciously. Happens during the day and when I'm sleeping; I wake up with shoulders way up towards my ears. Dr. Donahue says my body is doing this to open the area of compression. Problem is that I engage upper trap and neck muscles, causing spasms in the neck and face. Also worsens the fairly constant headache I have. These symptoms make sense since it's like doing perpetual isometrics. When I try to adopt more "correct" posture with relaxed shoulders I get increased, severe arm and hand pain but the neck/face issues ease up. Totally frustrating.
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When my TOS was much worse, I used to put a pillow or two under my elbow. This would give me that relief from the compression, but without me having to contract my shoulder and neck muscles.
Funny thing is, they would start to contract anyway like they were on autopilot. Maybe out of habit. But I just kept relaxing them over and over.