Okay, I’m a bit late with this update. I had my second appointment with the physio last Thursday. I still had some bruising in the pectoral area from Monday’s visit and so the physio decided to work some of the rhomboid muscles, to use some dry needle acupuncture in the rear of my shoulder and to spend about half an hour doing some painful flexibility stretches and exercises. After this I did some stretching on my own, and then received some electro-stimulus and heat.
The stretching exercises that the physio did to me really worked the range of motion of my shoulder and at times were quite painful. While talking about pain, however, the dry needle acupuncture itself was not a cakewalk.
The dry needle acupuncture was done in the rear of my shoulder, I’m guessing down towards my infraspinosis. The physio was poking needles into my shoulder until he found a tender spot which he proceeded to torture. My arm would reflexively move when he poked one of these areas. At one point he poked a sopt several times in quick succession and I asked him jokingly to stop playing. Although painful (and it hurt the next day and my wife also said she could see hole marks on my arm) it definitely worked for me.
At the moment things are looking up, my range of motion has improved markedly, and I do not feel the pain that I used to feel at the limit of my range of motion. That’s it for now, off to do my stretching exercises!
