Hey, I fixed my shoulder.
I was good fiddler for a while there, but I had to quit due
to what was diagnosed as myofascial pain syndrome (and I do
have fibromyalgia). Somewhere down the line I took a job as
a painter -- didn't paint much, as I was mostly a prep guy.
Please note that this was a desparation move, and my wife
and I more or less agreed that I wouldn't be able to do the
job for more than a couple of days.
As part of the prep, I would kneel on fridge-size cardboard
boxes and cut them up into two inch strips with a utility
knife. This would be single-thickness cuts, horizontally
(the 30-inch or so width), over plywood sub-flooring, and I
would do the entire strip in one motion, using my body to
supply some of the force of the cut. One fridge box would
just about do one house...
Anyway, after the first week of doing this, I had NO PAIN in
my shoulder -- could do anything I wanted with it, for the
first time in a freakin' decade. I can substantiate this for
anyone who cares to doubt me.
Now I have seen a lot of therapists and done a lot of
excercies with rubber hoses and stuff that sort of looked
like what I was doing, but the resistance wasn't the
same, and I would swear that I was using different
muscles to do it with.
These days, I do a lot of sitting and typing, and
occasionally develop a little stiffness in that shoulder. So
I go out to the barn, kneel on the floor, and cut up
cardboard for kindling. Shazam! Brand-new shoulder.
I have seen MDs, ODs, massage therapists, pain management
specialists, witch doctors and wise guys, and nobody
could fix me.
I had to do it myself.