[Akash]

Hi all, many of you are much more experienced than I am in body mechanics & TOS. I had a question to ask.

I am right handed, and my TOS symptoms are really hard to bear on the right side - upper trap seizes up, burning pain all the way down to the shoulder blade. Left hand burns as well, and since I fell on the left side from a bike.

But I have a symptom that I figured out when trying to do some exercises. When I shrug my right shoulder, raise it and drop it, immediately i get the "classical" TOS symptoms of my pinkie and 4th finger tingling/buzzing/hurting on the right hand.

Can this indicate where the compression is?

And what exercises I can do to improve it? Interestingly on using kinesio tape to hold my shoulders back, the burning in both hands decreased but the upper trap issue on the right side remained.

[jzp119]

Originally Posted by Akash

Hi all, many of you are much more experienced than I am in body mechanics & TOS. I had a question to ask.

I am right handed, and my TOS symptoms are really hard to bear on the right side - upper trap seizes up, burning pain all the way down to the shoulder blade. Left hand burns as well, and since I fell on the left side from a bike.

But I have a symptom that I figured out when trying to do some exercises. When I shrug my right shoulder, raise it and drop it, immediately i get the "classical" TOS symptoms of my pinkie and 4th finger tingling/buzzing/hurting on the right hand.

Can this indicate where the compression is?

And what exercises I can do to improve it? Interestingly on using kinesio tape to hold my shoulders back, the burning in both hands decreased but the upper trap issue on the right side remained.

I thought I was the only one! No clue how to make it stop happening.

[Akash]

Its the scalenes or cervical spine. They are being impinged there, when we shrug and open up the clavicle area yet it recurs asap, thats where its from

[jzp119]

Originally Posted by Akash

Its the scalenes or cervical spine. They are being impinged there, when we shrug and open up the clavicle area yet it recurs asap, thats where its from

Useful info thanks!

[Eight]

I would suggest looking into ultrasound guided botox injections of the pec minors, anterior scalenes and middle scalenes.

It sounds like your scalenes and pec minors are tight (this will also make the traps tight, but the botox injections in the other muscles will loosen up the traps, not sure why, it just does).

In the meantime, try using a heating pad and a soft cervical collar together. Put the heating pad or even pads on the front and/or sides of the neck and strapping it on with a cervical collar. Most cervical collars are 3" but I found a 4" one that stretches the neck even more. I used to do this along with taking my muscle relaxants at night pre-surgery and it helped more than using the heating pad anywhere else or the cervical collar alone.

In order to keep the shoulders back, do "pushups" against the wall to strengthen the rhomboids.

Also rubbing oils into the neck and stretching it side to side helps - I recently tried mustard oil.

[jzp119]

Originally Posted by Eight

I would suggest looking into ultrasound guided botox injections of the pec minors, anterior scalenes and middle scalenes.

It sounds like your scalenes and pec minors are tight (this will also make the traps tight, but the botox injections in the other muscles will loosen up the traps, not sure why, it just does).

In the meantime, try using a heating pad and a soft cervical collar together. Put the heating pad or even pads on the front and/or sides of the neck and strapping it on with a cervical collar. Most cervical collars are 3" but I found a 4" one that stretches the neck even more. I used to do this along with taking my muscle relaxants at night pre-surgery and it helped more than using the heating pad anywhere else or the cervical collar alone.

In order to keep the shoulders back, do "pushups" against the wall to strengthen the rhomboids.

Also rubbing oils into the neck and stretching it side to side helps - I recently tried mustard oil.

Thanks Eight, good info.