Not sure what I'm dealing with, wrist tendonitis and/or neck tendonitis and/or shoulder tendonitis

by Nicole Acker
(Houston)

About a year ago I started having pain in the front of my shoulder on the part closer to my neck. It would hurt when i held my arm up out to the side or overhead. It was also tender to the touch and sometimes hurt during sleep. I sleep on my right side and this is where the pain is.

I didn't do anything or see a doctor i just dealt with it and didn't blow dry my hair as much.

This year in January i began having a small pain sensation on the pinky side of my right wrist. It has steadily gotten worse.. it is on the thumb side now and i have a bump on top of the wrist.

The bump didn't hurt at first but now it does. I can pull on my wrist and the bones pop and crack. My thumb also pops a lot.

I went to a chiropractor and he took xrays of my back and neck only. He discovered that i have the top two vertebrae and bottom two of my neck fused congenitally. I have always felt like my neck was kinda short and have trouble turning my head all the way. Usually my shoulders want to move with it unless i consciously turn my neck.

He did some therapy and some trigger point stuff on my forearm. He said that i have severe trigger point in my shoulders and neck. I have stopped going because it was not getting better but worse.

My right elbow became inflamed and so now I have pain in my shoulder neck and wrist. I can't straighten the elbow. It feels like it wants to pop but cant. Sometimes it does and it's loud and kind of painful. I have been doing the self massage on the arm.

I can feel all sorts of knots and ropes in my biceps and forearms. there is one spot on my bicep that i push and i can feel it in my thumb.

I have days where the pain is almost gone and then i will wake up with pain all over again. I am taking Aleve and that seems to help some.

I have had some massages too. Thinking i need to see an registered massage therapist regularly. I cant see living like this! Any ideas would be helpful.

I have had a computer/ desk job for 11 plus years and am just now trying to work ergonomically. One thing i remembered that the weekend this wrist started i had a massage, the first in several years and the therapist noted the very bad knots in my shoulders upper back and really worked on them being released. It hurt!

I bought your ebook and have been doing the things you recommend. Also when my husband massages my neck the wrist pain diminishes immediately.



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Joshua Answers:

Hi Nicole.

1. That's why I'm not necessarily a fan of painfully deep massage. Your body was trying to keep your pain dynamic down and was slowly losing but successfully keeping you from feeling pain.

Then the massage therapist jumped in there and forced things, effectively frightening your nervous system that turned up the Pain Causing Dynamic to heightened levels.


2. One of the major factors of Tendonitis is progressive muscle tightness. Tighter and tighter, more and more tense. This does a variety of bad things.

See: What Is Tendonitis


3. Congenital vertebral fusion is certainly a possibility. It happens. Let's go with that.

Unfortunately your body isn't perfectly adapted to that. Your whole system is not mutated to match those fused bones.

So you don't have the range of motion you should, so muscles get stuck too tight and short. Which = less circulation --> waste product and irritant build up --> more pain signal to the brain --> more action by the nervous system to protect you --> more tightness and more Process of Inflammation.

And as you should be very aware of by now TOO TIGHT muscles eat up A LOT of Magnesium, leaving you insufficient/deficient and locking your muscles even tighter. Then tighter.

Tightness spreads. It sounds like it started at the neck, and is spreading down the arm/affecting down the arm. No surprises there.

Tightness spreads. Pain enhancing chemical spreads. Etc. Repeat.



3. Regular massage would be great. -Relaxing- massage (literally), as opposed to painful, tense-you-up work.


4. Ergonomics are good, but NO ergonomics is better. See: New Ergonomics Definition


5. Mare SURE to heed the Nutrition suggestions in the ebook.


6. It's a REALLY good clue that raising/lowering your arm and getting massage on the neck has such a A. big effect and B. immediate effect and C. affects the arm.

Structures are too tight at the neck/shoulder, and that's affecting everything from neck to fingertips (and the entire body, in fact).

Focus on the neck.

Can you apply what you've learned in the Reversing Wrist Tendonitis ebook to your neck, or would you like me to email you some pointers?



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Joshua Tucker, B.A., C.M.T.
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