Recently diagnosed with RC tear, pain has steadily worsened each day and week since PT began in late November. I now have pain all the time in my shoulder (except when I take days off from the exercises) and am able to do less and less without pain.

Starting this week, and on the advice of my PT, I will take a break from going to the PT facility until I return to my sports ortho doc in late February to discuss other treatment options (my PT believes surgery is inevitable). I ordered the book Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff to see if it might help, hoping to return to the doctor with some good news.

Meanwhile, I read about trigger point therapy and wonder if it might be effective in my case. Has anyone successfully treated a patient (or been treated) with this diagnosis and obtained successful results from trigger point therapy alone, or along with effective PT?