Shoulder muscle strain- won't go away!

[fishy]

Hello, this is my first post My problem is that I was in a car accident a couple years back, and ended up having to go to physical therapy for my shoulder, it was a muscle strain but it was freezing up and stuff really bad. So anyway, I finished that about a year ago(at the time they said they didn't think I'd be able to use my shoulder again!) and can now move/lift things just fine. Except now it still bothers me everyday, mainly just spasms/freezes up and I keep having to rub and stretch it. Especially after I lift weights, it really bothers me. The muscles themselves don't feel sore, so it's not that I'm lifting too much, it's just they keep freezing up after. My doc. gave me muscle relaxers but they made me way too tired so I can't take those, and I can't take asprin/ibprofen. Is there anything else I can take or do to help?? Thanks!

 

[stingray]

Did you get a second opinion on it? It seems impossible to me that a "strain" would casue you this much problems 2 years down the road.

 

[fishy]

Did you get a second opinion on it? It seems impossible to me that a "strain" would casue you this much problems 2 years down the road.

No I didn't, but he took xrays and it didn't show anything. The physical therapists I saw seemed to think it was possible, they said sometimes people's muscles just freeze like that after a trauma, and may not ever recover.

 

[Joester]

Sounds fishy to me...strain or not. Rather than try to DX out of thin air, I would advise you to see an Ortho for a 2nd opinion. You may have a complication somewhere[shoulder joint, brachial plexus, neck], I'll leave it at that.
Good luck. Hope I helped.