Hi physiobob,
Hoping you can help. It's like my body is putting me through the works as I have now compressed the ulnar nerve. Over the last three weeks I have been suffering from a very irritated ulnar nerve where the pain radiates down my arm on the inside of the arm (anterior side I think).

Recently I had a muscle spasm in supraspin and have had levator scap muscle spasms of the last year. With the recent muscle spasm of supraspin I experienced some tingling down my arm on the fourth and little finger which my physio believes was referred pain.

Then about two weeks later I had to take minutes for a meeting and my shoulder went. It almost felt like it was about to spasm but it settled after I stopped writing. After training three days later, I was unable to write. I haven't been able to type for long periods of time for almost three weeks where I was unable to type at all during the first week. My physio believes that I have compressed/inflammed the ulnar nerve.

I guess I'm looking for advice in relation to how to manage this, how long it will take to heal (this is the longest time it has taken for something to heal) and if I should be training at all. My physio is currently doing dry needling work and I get acupuncture every wk to treat the Wikipedia reference-linkrotator cuff bc it too is irritated and I know that it can cause referred pain down the arm. I guess the million dollar question is how long will it take to heal and if I should be training at all? Training makes me feel better and it doesn't seem to aggravate my shoulder because it gets it warm (normally cold at the moment even though it's 35C in Oz). Is this the right thing to do be doing or should I just rest for a week and see how it goes. I've already taken it really easy for 4 days and I didn't really see much improvement. I actually drove myself insane not being able to do anything.

My thoracic is also very tight and I know I need to work on freeing this up. I'm using a foam roller to do this at night but I'm thinking I'll need to do more if I'm at a desk all day long. Is that right?

Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated. If you could also refer me to some literature on treatment of compressed nerves that would be awesome.

Thanks in advance