Question
About 3-4 weeks ago i had a lot of pain in neck and shoulder. i believe i injured it shooting over 70 lacrosse balls at our new net in the yard. Since then i have been to acupuncture/cupping and massage. Both have helped, but still feel discomfort where  neck joins shoulder(stiff feeling) and left shoulder blade(knotted feeling). Sleeping better, but agin still discomfort. I have flexibilty in left arm, but can not do a single push up(used to do 3 sets of 30. GP snding me for MRI as next step.

Answer
Hi Tim,

Hopefully you don't have a tear of some kind.  If it is musculoligamentous Chiropractic may be able to help.  What we would check are specific local restrictions in motion.  Usually called fixations of joint play.

The massage will help the reactive spasm, edema and so on but will not restore this type of specific problem.  The fact that the massage helped makes it even more likely that we can help.

The MRI and perhaps an orthopedic opinion will be good to rule out surgical considerations.  In those situations we can only offer a modicum of relief and, later, rehab.

Hope this helps.