Originally Posted by Boudicca

I have no clue how this happened, but my shoulder is seizing up on me, in that I can lift it (with a certain amount of pain), but it's really painful to try to move my arm to the side it across my body and it's getting worse by the hour. It's tender to the touch, and while I booked a massage for tomorrow, I start wondering if I'll even be able to let the therapist touch it without screaming out.

The thing that worries me is that I had a rotator cuff injury on that shoulder about 5 years ago, and this sort of pain is exactly how it started. Within a day I couldn't move my shoulder at all, and I needed a cortisone shot to get it freed up again, so that's clearly not an option this time. They do warn about multiple shots to the same joint after all.

I'm trying to stretch it gently, and move it every which way, without straining it too much.

Any thoughts/tips?