I have done most of the different types of PT. The last PT I did was a year ago and I was doing upper body core strengthen under the care of a occupational therapist. She was doing stretches, deep tissue massages, heat and Astym on me.

We found that besides the stretches, the PT could make my symptom worse at times. We went 4 weeks 3 times a week with the PT and one day when I was doing the upper body core strengthen exercises my symptoms went from 2-3 to a 8-9 and all the progress that we had made was lost. Following that episode we are very careful about the PT that I do and currently I do chest, shoulder and arm stretches daily when able. Usually after PT I hurt more than when I arrived at PT.

The only PT I do with the Occupational Therapist now is heat, Astym, arm traction, deep muscle massage when needed. I am also doing a stretch to help my right shoulder movement. I have developed limited motion in the shoulder and do cylinder stretches to help with the limited motion.