[alophysio]

HI,

Your story sounds terrible. As a warning to anyone, whenever you get a massage, they should be rubbing your muscles...if you want other treatment, then see a physio! Your RMT friends are right to be worried about their colleague.

Secondly, thanks for the helpful posts - lots of info is helpful.

Next, you live in Canada but where?? The reason why is because Diane Lee and LJ Lee are in Vancouver - both are basically the world's experts on the thorax - literally wrote the textbook on treatment and rehab.

Another point, you have something wrong. You have said so yourself. When a doctor tells you there is nothing wrong, they are telling you that the test they used came back as normal. Just because they don't know what is wrong doesn't mean everything is ok. Persevere.

It sounds like your condition could be many things. It might be a sternoclavicular sprain. It might be a first rib injury. It might be a thoracic outlet problem.

When you go to see a physio, during the assessment, they will do things that makes it sore. They will also do things that makes it better. If they don't, depending on what is wrong of course, then find someone who can. Even if it is fractured, one can make it feel better by changing the tension on the bones.

By the way, the technique the massage therapist was probably trying to do was to stretch out your pec minor but in my experience, when you go that hard, people tense up, not relax. A gentle stretch should have been enough.

Also, I would be sending my medical bills to the massage therapist...