hi hairdresser,
towelhorse here, i dont know whether you have read any of the things that i have written, but essentially i had traction and it made me worse, then nerve glides, it made me much worse, then truncal strengthening , worse still, then work hardening agh!!!. then they called it chronic pain syndrome..

they do not know what is actually happening. my theory is that we are compromising the nerve that goes under the scapula (long thoracic nerve) every time we use our affected arm, everytime we lay on our backs, everytime we breathe deeply, everytime the clinician massages the area, everytime we sit and increase pressure on our diaphragm that causes our ribs to place more pressure on the nerve, all the time we increase our weight that places more pressure on our diaphragm etc., everytime we bend down to the ground and use our affected arm and then breathe which puts 3 times the pressure on that nerve. this in turn makes the arm unstabilised and then other compensating muscles (pectoralis minor) put pressure on the nerves to our hands. please, try putting your arm in a sling for a while and anything that hurts is bad, any drugs which give you the ability to do things which compromise the nerve are bad, anybody who tries to get you to do things that make your situation worse doesnt know what they are doing. i understand your position, i have been there, you are just trying anything that may make you better. focus on those things that improve your situation and don't succumb to the pressure to do the others regards towelhorse