What is the cause of my upper back pain?
Over past 3 weeks I have had a pain around the middle trapezius to rhomboid region. I first noticed when whilst at rugby training, I don't remember any direct movement or impact that may have caused it. After practice I applied some ice to area I got the pain in upper back and the following morning repeated the same procedure to some relief the pain had reduced by the following day. The following weekend I was suppose to be playing in a pre-season game, however, during the warm up when performing some lineout lifts I noticed the same pain reoccur. At that point I decided to pull out of the match to avoid further injury and treated the injury as if it was a tear/strain. I was able to get some sports massage around the area but I found that it initially made me feel slightly more comfortable but made the symptoms worse later the same day. At that point in time I changed from using ice to heat treatment but it seemed to make it worse so switched back to ice. At that point I still believed it was a tear, but 3 weeks later I have noticed some other symptoms like pain when breathing deeply but only sometimes.
Do you think I am still dealing with a sprain/tear or do you think this might be related to something else? At the time I don't remember suddenly thinking it hurt, and I know I hadn't done anything repetitive in that session that may have been a cause. One other thing, I have had some minor discomfort in chest when breathing but not convinced its related.
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