Suspected Chronic Levator Scapulae Syndrome

[neurospast]

Nerve studies done are for Radial nerve, median nerve and ulnar nerve: all but one: The long thoracic nerve, which is a separate branch not part of the Brachial nerve. Hope you get this investigated. As I said it is superficial and if e.g. you would have had at any time upto a month a severe blow to the neck or the side of the thorax ( musculus Serratus anterior area) or something similar it might not be working and the only sign would be... inability to stabilise the shoulder girdle.

[zac1968]

Nerve studies done are for Radial nerve, median nerve and ulnar nerve: all but one: The long thoracic nerve, which is a separate branch not part of the Brachial nerve. Hope you get this investigated. As I said it is superficial and if e.g. you would have had at any time upto a month a severe blow to the neck or the side of the thorax ( musculus Serratus anterior area) or something similar it might not be working and the only sign would be... inability to stabilise the shoulder girdle.

Thank you very much for this feedback. I will be seeing my Neurologist next Monday and I will quiz him about this.

Regards
Zac

[zac1968]

OK. Saw a Myotherapist today and he found something that no one had identified in the last 12 months. On my right, the first and second rib are elevated. It would seem that this could be the cause of my shoulder spasms and sternum pain.
I haven't mentioned the sternum pain here as I thought it could be wear and tear from the constant shoulder jerking. I have mentioned it to my GP and also to my current Neurologist as it has been causing discomfort for the last 7-8 months, but they didn't think it was significant.

The Myotherapist worked on it today, but freely admitted that he wasn't qualified to realign them, so I'm going to see my Chiropractor on Friday to see if she can put them back in place.

[zac1968]

Looks like the Elevated rib was a consequence of my condition and not the cause. The Chiropractor had to do a few adjustments on my spine as well as releasing some trigger points in my neck and upper trap. Hopefully the Botox injections on Monday will give me some relief.

[nmarman]

With the presents of scapular winging. Long thoracic nerve is very good diagnosis. Have seen this in neurological cases book on the cd but lost the dam cd. If anybody has the cd might be worth comparing the utube video to the case video