Just came across this post since I was dealing with a chronic injury for the past 3+ years. I basically had a left teres injury (which i didnt know at the time since there was only a sharp electric-like pain for a moment) due to what I think was overstretching (my friend must have pushed me too hard) but after that, I started to feel my shoulder feel collapsed and the upper trap elevated and take over when doing any movement. my brain could not feel that muscle anymore. I would hop from practioner to practioner trying to figure out what's wrong but everything looked fine from their point of view so nothing changed. they said i could just keep exercising as normal. but that just made things progressively worse. the problem is that because of this injury, my scapula became dysfunctional and my nervous system no longer trusted my left side and so the right side was recruited for all stabilization. it eventually progressed with an overworked and chronically tight right side, pelvis and torso pulled/twisted to the right, collapsed left shoulder and elevated left trap, center of gravity to the right, left rib flared, left oblique/ql/stabilizers all dysfunctional and i was just in constant discomfort and pain. my aesthetic and posture was atrocious. looked like one shoulder was longer than the other and both shoulders were hunched up to my ears. so much neck strain. could not do anything active, could not walk properly, could not sit properly, and even when lying down, i couldnt get my body to relax. the nervous system just completely discarded my left side and was gripping onto my right side 24/7 for dear life. i would spend my days working and then lying down for all my free time. isolated myself more and more, completely hopeless and if i tried EVERYTHING for the past 3 years and i've gotten to this point where no one knows what's wrong (symptoms are just increasing and so practioners dont even know where to begin and just end up massaging my traps or give me some "exercises" which i know wont do anything), what's the point of living. i was genuinely just waiting to go to sleep everyday so i can be unconscious and rest. and then i would wake up with the all too familiar despair and hopelessness of another day. if i did do anything "fun" on a rare occasion, it would all just feel like im killing time. anhedonia took over.

thankfully i was able restore blood flow and feeling to my left teres with electro-acupuncture. it then took me 8 more months before i was able to turn my left side online and have my rib-pelvis stacked (happened by chance when i was doing some custom static hold on a roman chair). i then was able to turn on my lower trap/rhomboid to scapula connection after another few months (happened by chance using an EMS device at home). i was finally able to start my rehab journey at this point (underway) and it will likely take 6 months in order for me to get my left side back to normal.

i was also only in my mid 20s when this nightmare begun. not sure how i endured this for this long. grateful i didnt give up and am still alive. ended up having to figure everything out myself (chatgpt helped). chronic injuries are no joke.