05/13/2026
Chronic pain isn’t always coming from where you feel it.
This patient has persistent pain between the shoulder blades even after a disc replacement surgery. But instead of only treating the area where the pain is felt, I’m treating the neck. Why? Because the dorsal scapular nerve originates from the C5 nerve root in the cervical spine and innervates the rhomboid muscles between the shoulder blades.
If that nerve is irritated, compressed, or dysfunctional, the brain may perceive the pain between the shoulders even though the source is higher up in the neck.
This is why simply chasing pain locations can lead to ineffective treatment. In regenerative and neuromuscular medicine, we have to identify the source, not just the symptom.
Where you feel pain isn’t always where the problem begins.
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