Seeman: If you see no improvement in PT over a 6 week period, do not become discouraged.

IMO, 6 weeks is a very small amount of time in the TOS-PT world to make any determining factors with regards to surgery. It may have taken the 10 years since your whiplash event, plus other posture and weightlifting traumas to put you where you are today. 6-weeks will not unravel you so quickly.

Sounds like you had a good positive first appointment. That's a victory by itself!