Originally Posted by glenntaj

--tingly, burning, painful sensation in my upper back and across the shoulder blades intermittently through my long years of neuropathy.

The problem, of course, for neuropathic symptoms in those areas are that it's very hard to distinguish those that may come from a systemic cause from those that come from more localized compression. It is very easy to compress nerves in that area, and symptoms can come from the lower cervical and upper thoracic spine, or from the brachial plexus. And, there is always the possibility of double-crush phenomenon--nerves already compromised from a systemic cause are more prone to additive symptoms if any compressive forces are applied to them (and the symptoms often are "greater than the sum of the parts").