[how did you discover you were having C-5-6 problems? just curious.

I am having some regular MRI's tomorrow to rule out spinal issues with my ongoing TOS

Johanna]

I saw your post about having an MRI soon , so I was wondering if you have heard anything ?

I have some osteophytes at C5/6- but no bulges or anything like that, nothing touching the cord. {Xrays & MRI}

The chiro and the expert PTs each did the compression/traction testing to check if any of my pain/sx were coming from my c spine or not.
All the pressing,stretching, tilting, and positions they tried to reproduce any symptoms or pain-- nothing.

Supposedly if problem is from c spine, those testing /positions would have caused sx to show up right at that time - not hours after.

Of course hours later then the TOS ached and flared for a couple days.

Jo- I Called in this morning, hpoing to hear today sometime. I'll let you knwo when I hear.

I always have trouble when they say...does that hurt? It never does.

sorry you are felling crappy now!

Johanna

Jo-
They just called and I am supposedly normal.

Johanna

Well , in a way that is good - at least you don't have c spine problems and TOS issues.

As far as the hurting part I had the same problem, when the docs & PTs would feel around and try to find any sore spots - very rarely did they find anything.
Most of my pain seemed to be a deep in the muscle type of pain {in my forearms at the beginning & then my upper back & shoulder pains joined in later}. It didn't hurt at all for them to be poking and prodding- actually it felt great. That part baffled them as they wanted /needed} to be able to say that they could find the pain - so they could address the source { for the work comp claim}.

For a few weeks off and on I had very sore tender spots right around my elbow bones, for a short time I had a very sore wrist joint, I had the ulnar nerve hypersensitivity for months but not very sore to the outside touch - only if I leaned, rubbed or brushed it against something.

I do have a tender "bursa" ?? or something where the shoulder muscle comes over the top of the shoulder and ties into the upper arm/bicep muscle- it's a round area about the size of a half dollar, but it comes and goes, and doesn't really even hurt unless I press on it hard.