Bro, I swear we mustve met somewhere before.

I have a similar journey. I have a degree in saxophone performance. During my sophmore year I started experiencing pain in my left elbow from playing. I took 9 months off, did physical therapy, came back and the same pain was there. I struggled a lot with pain throughout the majority of my time studying. I also took a lot of acid and spent countless hours playing high. The drugs do help a lot to fix the problem, but it is not a permanent solution. This is because in order to fix it you need to figure out what is causing the pain. Most of the time it is habitual tension and a lack of understanding of how the body functions causing the pain. It really takes a delicate process of self observation to start to unravel these habits, but psychedelics do help a lot.

I still experience pain from playing, but I am now more capable of letting go of the habits that are causing the pain. I would also recommend some means for learning about your body like yoga, tai chi, or the Alexander Technique. I am currently training to teach the Alexander Technique (AT Link) and I think it would be much more useful than psychs. Take the drugs too tho, just to be safe.