I'm sorry you had to waste so much time, MONEY, and pain-free years of your life on this. It drives me crazy how western medicine derides (at best) any medical practitioner who doesn't wear a lab coat. It's like chronic pain isn't worth the time of a doctor unless they can sell you a pill for it, at least until you finally experience otherwise irreparable damage and they can charge you for surgery. I trust my massage therapist with my health more than any doctor I've ever been granted an audience with.
I firmly believe that in the next ~10 years this attitude will change (at least in the US) as payers transition to community outcome-based reimbursement models. It's a lot cheaper to massage someone's SCMs (educated guess, I'd love to know if it was something else) a few times and teach them how to stretch FIRST than it is to send them to go through all that bullshit. Every clinician has the anatomical knowledge required to identify that issue, especially any that specializes in a system located directly at the insertion of this muscle. The fact that not one, but two ENTs missed this just shows how dysfunctional the healthcare industry is.
I firmly believe that in the next ~10 years this attitude will change (at least in the US) as payers transition to community outcome-based reimbursement models. It's a lot cheaper to massage someone's SCMs (educated guess, I'd love to know if it was something else) a few times and teach them how to stretch FIRST than it is to send them to go through all that bullshit. Every clinician has the anatomical knowledge required to identify that issue, especially any that specializes in a system located directly at the insertion of this muscle. The fact that not one, but two ENTs missed this just shows how dysfunctional the healthcare industry is.