I just came back yesterday from my second week of treatment at Ando and Aston in Anaheim hills in So Cal. It was so worth the two trips I have made from Northern California to see Dr. Art Ando and Dr. James Sposa, physical therapists, so highly specialised, so good at evaluating, they truly seemed like human xray machines and they found lots of problems to fix, from ribs to musculature to postural issues and all the manipulation and mobilization of ribs, muscles, tissues, nerves and myofascial release that they did on me just felt soooo good and so right, it did not make me sore but just lighter and gave me more mobility and I landed up having three visits in three days on my request (I wanted to make the most of it since I had made this trip specially for getting better!).

Came back with couple more exercises that I did not have time to learn on my first trip which was in the 3rd week of August.
I was dying to post after my first trip, but just thought I should wait after my second trip. I give them a big thumbs up because to be very honest I have been forgetting to take my neurontin in the middle of the day as I don't get into that " must take that edge off" situation.
I think truly with Ando and Aston I feel I have found the missing piece of my puzzle, and it is just a matter of time for me to get out of this.

They have given me my Eval as well as all detailed daily reports to share with my therapists here. It's been a team approach and I am very thankful for that.
In the meanwhile I am going to plan on seeing a CFMT (Certified functional manual therapist) and trained in the PNF technique local to Northern Cal, keep working daily on those exercises taught by Ando and Aston, along with my old ones including the diaphramatic breathing and the soft tissue and scar mobilization with my local therapist.

Long term plan is to go see Dr. Ando and Dr. Sposa in about 4 to 6 months for a re eval as they have been practising for a long time, and I consider them my baseline.
I had to post as I have found so much help on this forum, that it would be a huge loss if I did not share my experience as I was headed to see a couple of surgeons out of town in June for possible brachial plexus neurolysis or first rib removal /tenotomy which would have made me a redo case possibly resulting in even more scar tissue as I am a post scalenectomy patient and now I have been able to avoid that, hopefully forever!

I am very thankful to all of you on the forum who posted and encouraged me to keep looking....
Speedy recovery to all of you. Keep researching and keep being positive! A door always opens