Finally, after a year of awful pain in my pecs, intercostals, serratus, and surrounding fascia, the main culprit, both pecs, released and the incapacitating pain is gone. It took almost six months of myofascial release, going two and three times a week, for them to release. I still have restrictions to be released in the above mentioned areas as well as my entire chest, back, psoas, etc... These are uncomfortable but don't incapacitate me. Needless to say I am ecstatic!

This all started after months of trying to strengthen my arm muscles doing several exercises that a PT gave me. Since I had never had myofascial pain in my arms or chest, I didn't think this would be a problem. But due to my hypermobile joints, these exercises pulled my collarbone out of alignment, which started the surrounding muscles to tighten. When I finally mentioned this to my Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractor, he immediately addressed the problem, but by then the fascia was traumatized. At the same time, I had just started seeing a naturopath who specialized in chronic pain, and he suggested trying Biopuncture, which are injections of Traumeel given right under the skin and the solution is supposed to speed up the healing of traumatized fascia. Immediately after having about six injections in both pecs, I was in horrible pain, which lasted until the MFR occupational therapist got the fascia in the pecs to release and they began moving properly again. The theory is that the injections bound the sheath to the underlying muscles and instead of moving separately, they moved together and wreaked havoc on my upper body.

Since I got those injections, I haven't been able to drive or tutor my six students. I also had to stop posting in the group, because typing was too painful. I look forward to doing these things again, but my therapist wants me to start slowly. That is okay with me.