Lost my trust in sports physio. Please Help :(

[physiointhesand]

Wow - thats a laundry list you have there man.

Ill keep it short - as its always hard to give a complete response without actually talking to you and asking all I would need to...

1) What sort of weight training are you doing? VERY and I say VERY generally speaking, if you are doing too much bench and have a bad back/shoulder stability sling then your traps will be over active and this can lead to neck/shoulder discomfort. Your shoulder complex is heavily muscular based and joint congruency is reliant on posture. Too much bench press or anterior muscle work and you're going to have problems. I once saw a power lifter that could bench nearly 200kg but couldnt raise his arm forwards as his serratus anterior were atrophied, leading to bad scaps. Be weary of your guy routine... these can be deadly for your shoulders if you have an imbalance.

2) Youre right, we really dont know jack about theosis/itis ideas and the debate still rages. Again - watch the gym work.

3) You've lost your confidence in practitioners - you arent the first and wont be the last. Unfortunately we cant all get it right at times, but you have to look for someone that can clinically reason their way through your condition and not just say what it is... a person that takes a detailed history and listens to your for more that 17 seconds (the reported average listening time for a health care practitioner) is more likely to help

4) As for the R side of your body seizing from ??the hip/back down?? Are you a cricket fast bowler? Have you played recently? When does it get worse and when does it get better?

Sorry, thats a lot of info. Good luck man

[ok_cub2008]

Thanks for your reply!

1) Well, I'm not doing any weight training anymore. I haven't done any since November 2010, where I stopped because I wasn't happy with my left shoulder mechanics. When I was training, I'd train 3 times a week, split between chest, back/shoulders, arms.... I found bench press was the only exercise I gained any strength in. But it was probably the exercise I concentrated on least - I was trying to get back and shoulder exercises right, but I found lat pulldown and shoulder press impossible on my left hand side. I kept telling myself that "it would sort itself out". I wasn't lifting heavy at all (I could barely shoulder press 5kg dumbbells).

4) I did do quite a lot of bowling in my early teens, but I was predominantly a batsman. The problem gets worse during inactivity, but paradoxically once it has started, any activity makes it worse. For example the one thing that was keeping me vaguely sane was going for a 45 minute walk every day. I've had to stop that in the last week because the pain in my hip, my calf, my foot and the tightness in my entire right shoulder, it just makes it impossible to walk and it just gets worse and worse. Instinctively I feel it may be related to extended periods sitting (e.g. at computer) and the poor posture that follows. The last couple of weeks I've developed a pretty unhealthy obsession with seating posture, trying to find the optimum way of sitting at a computer (e.g. lumbar support, trying various incline angles to keep spine in neutral position with minimal effort etc...). It couldn't be sciatica could it?