Hay Vaultusa

I am no expert at SC joint injuries I am sorry to say, but I might be able to provide you with a little information.

Your SC joint is the only bone on bone joint connection of your arm to your main skeleton! The other interaction is in your scapula posteriorly. Occasionally I have found in clients with long term SC degeneration or damage a change in biomechanics and loading patterns which makes more use of their scapula and scauplothoracic (what us therapists call the connection between the back of your rib cage and your scapula) joint. This can overload your local muscles posteriorly and give you this tightness and pain you call "victim pain".

I am quite interested in your investigations, as the report states abnormal joints bilaterally. If you could post some of them in this topic we might be able to get a clearer picture of what is going on. Sadly however, in my limited experience SC joint injuries are generally quite passive in terms of their rehabilitation. Anti-inflams / pain relief etc. tend to be the trend from Dr's, unless their is clear evidence of dislocation, in which they can perform closed reduction (pop the joint back in) or open reduction (surgery).

I know you said it sounds like a dislocation as well, but by the sounds of the report it is more so degeneration following a possible trauma / dislocation? Were you in a car accident or something similar? This is the most common reasons for SC joint injuries. If this is the case it is likely that surgical intervention could be indicated to clean / reshape the joints? If you search "sternoclavicular surgery" on google (not very reliable I know) you will find a few case studies of people with similar problems who have undergone surgery to restabilise and clear out joints following problems with SC pain and recurrent dislocations/degeneration. Have a read and maybe write a list of questions to ask your Dr. or orthopaedic surgeon to see if this avenue might be an option.

Sorry I can't give you any more direct treatment options, but as I said, I am not an expert on SC joints so I will leave this to another therapist if I can I will keep an eye on this post and try and help out though