Question
Hello and thank you sincerely in advance for taking my question. I have been in pain for many years and am just now starting to search for answers, after realising it was not healing or going away on its own.
I work as a life drawing model and am required to hold poses for extended lengths of time without moving. Often you choose a pose, hold for 20 .inutes, get a 5 minute break, and repeat up to 10 in the same pose. My very first night, I took a pose that felt comfortable at first but as the night went on it became clear I had made a devastating choice. I was half siting/laying on my side with my right arm supporting my weight on a small stool. Sorry this is hard to explain but I believe it is important in understanding which muscles couldve been affected. The pose was similar to if you had been laying flat on your side, then sat up slightly, with your legs and body still laying down mostly but your upper torso raised up qnd supported by your bent arm across a little stool....like siting up sideways in bed.
As the night went on, I could feel muscles tearing in my shoulder. I tried to stretch during the breaks and shake it off, worried that if I asked to take another pose this far in I would ruin everyone's paintings. In hindsight, I should not have let anything come before my health, but here I am.
since then, I have had reoccurring pain, fatigue, and discomfort in my back/shoulder. I can go for a week or more without noticing, but then it will come back for several days. I can still move my shoulder and arm fine without sharp pain. It is more like a constant dull fatigue and stress with some pain beneath my shoulder blade. I was looking up muscle diagrams to see which muscle it could be, and its somewhere around the Rhomboid major muscle. When I reach behind my left hand around to my right  shoulder and rub just left of my shoulder blade, I can tell I am rubbing the injured muscle.

Wihin the past 6 months or more, I have also developed a similar reoccurring wrist injury that may be related to a pinched or pressured nerve from the shoulder injury? When my wrist is hurting though, it is extremely painful. Where as the shoulder is a constant nagging but dull pain, the wrist is sharp biting pain when I move my hand too far in any direction. Before using it at all I usually have to stretch it out, getting past the sharp pain when I move it at first, and then the pain becomes more dull and I can use my wrist. When I feel the wrist with my fingers, the pain seems to come from inside, between some of the bones I can feel on the surface. It hurts most on the top of my wrist and directly in the center.

The timing is the same as the shoulder, with several days of pain, and then back to normal for a week or several weeks. One usually follows the other. For example I just phased out of the extreme pain in my wrist a day or two ago, and now my shoulder just began the hurting and fatigue today. Not sure if they are linked but I want to provide all the info I can.

I have tried eating more protein hopefully to give it more fuel to heal, but no amout of rest has seemed to help. I am desperate to find out possible explanations for what happened and ways I can help to repair it and allow it to heal. It is affecting my work and daily life, and I am finding it harder to perform simple, usually non-strenuous activities like sweeping or mopping.

I cannot tell you how much your help or advice will be appreciated. It affects me every day and is making life harder to enjoy, and activities I once loved near unbearable, like hiking, building, and crafting which rely heavily on my arm and wrist. I am 20 years old, if that helps anything. I didnt think I would have injuries like this at such a young age, because I don't do any extreme sports or strenuous activities.

Thank you sincerely,
Haley

Answer
haley ,
it sounds pretty straight forward. you probably misaligned some vertebrae in your spine. you have nerves that exit in between those bones and they travel down your arm. it probably is related to your shoulder. You should go see a chiropractor and have him release the muscle spasms and re-align your spine. also , have him check you for scoliosis. it will probably take about 4-8 weeks of 2-3 visits a week to heal it up. protein isn't going to do anything for you. this is definitely a chiropractic case and any competent chiropractor can handle this no problem. you may also have a clavicle out of alignment. good luck!