A while back many of us here were talking about frozen shoulder syndrome.  I
suspected that I might have had that, but I've finally seen my doctor for
the first time in over a year and brought it up with her.  After a cursory
examination, she told me she suspected bursitis, but sent me down to x-ray.

I got the letter in the mail today, the results from the x-ray says it's
early degenerative arthritis.  Now I'm wondering if I should go ahead and
schedule physical therapy anyway (which Doc suggested when she thought it
was bursitis) or not.  Does physical therapy do any good for arthritis?  I'd
been diagnosed years ago of having arthritis in both my feet and back (from
x-rays) but the pain from that is nothing like I've been having in my
shoulder.  The only pain I feel in my feet is that which typically
accompanies neuropathy, and my back's been hurting on-and-off since I was in
my early 20's, it's not so bad I can't tolerate it.