Sports Physical Therapy & Performance Centers / Everett

I had terrible tendonitis in both elbows and had therapy for months at another of their offices. It was determined that I should get work on my shoulders. The therapy I started doing was really helping. Elbows didn't hurt anymore and I was starting to get strength back (I give 5 stars for that). One day I mentioned one shoulder hurt some, so one of the guys started reefing on my shoulder with plastic scraping tools like he was trying to grate 500 pounds of cheese in 30 seconds, the pain was incredible. I told him to slow down and not as much pressure. (I've had this done before at other places and yes it's painful but not at this level, a slower rhythm and not as much pressure works better for me anyways). The guy continued. That night I was in so much pain I could not sleep and this continued for 5 days until I went to the emergency room where I was diagnosed with a Frozen shoulder and told to get an MRI. The MRI indicated a tear in a tendon in the shoulder among other things that was probably aggravated by the heavy scraping. Needless to say after 6 weeks of no sleep, pain pills/cortisone shots in the joint I started PT at another place. I am probably going in for surgery soon (couple weeks). I was really making progress until that heavy scrapping and the past 2 months have been terrible and now I'll most likely have 3+ more months of rehab which is very frustrating when you are super active. I have a coworker and neighbor that stopped going to this clinic because of the scrapping techniques so if they want to do it to you - just say NO! To wrap it up. 2 complaints - 1) Having different people work on you every time (I'd like the same person so they can tell my progress) and 2) Learn more about the scrapping technique and LISTEN when the client says it's to painful then back off. Kudos - They had me on a regime that I was really making progress.