The current description of why my right shoulder has been hurting like hell since I injured myself at work and went through physical therapy for it 4 years ago and injured it again in a car accident almost 2 years ago, is that I have bursitis. As opposed to frozen shoulder - which is how it started - the therapy for this condition is very different.

Bursitis is usually brought on by some type of trauma. Injuring both sides again in the car accident didn’t help me heal. Or move forward.

With a swollen bursa; applying heat to it - although feeling wonderful when I have done it, has aggravated the condition and made the pain worse. We are now applying cold paks twice a day, and doing a limited number of exercises.

My neck and shoulder area stiffened up quite a bit over time dealing with this thing, but they’ve been helping me in therapy to loosen that up. I can move my head again.

AND…they’ve been taping the shoulder, which has given me a tremendous amount of relief from the pain, which had been ratcheted up to an unbearable constant level.

I can’t believe I can actually look forward to having a productive life back again.

It’s still ongoing, with about two more weeks left of PT.

The only part about stabilizing the shoulder by taping it, is…it itches like crazy!

Other than that, it feels really great.

And the audible clicking and cracking when I move the arm is lessening.