A couple thoughts on RCT: the long head bicep and supraspinatus tendons seem to be most often symptomatic in the cases i've treated; when the bicep tendon is aggravated it aches down the front of the arm (the bicep) and when the supraspinatus is irritated it aches down the side of your arm and occasionally into the elbow; so if your arm aches then the tendons are getting irritated; my care plan of choice is to minimize pain through rest, ice and meds; stop aggravating factors - stay out of impingement positions when your elbow is away from your body and hand is turned down like shifting a car, pouring coffee or using computer with arms unsupported; instead try and keep your elbow at your side and lift with palm up; get full passive shoulder rom through man ther like soft tissue work, joint stretch and surrounding muscle stretch; lastly add painfree strengthening exercises and in my book if your shoulder is painful after exercise then they aren't painfree exercises. You should be able to do resisted shoulder adduction and extension (do adduction in scapular plane, not straight out from side), scap depression and retraction (try bypassing GH joint and loop Tband around your shoulder joint so you're pushing with the back of your shoulder). Iontophoresis is a dexamethasone patch where anti-infl meds are passed into the AC area using electricity - your PT can do that; steroid injection to subacromial space could also be done by ortho, but i'd let him/her bring up that idea Lastly, I would not push through with rescue training as it may turn a non-surgical condition into a surgical one. Good luck.