Somebody in r/RSI just told me that stopping doing the thing that caused your repetitive strength injury is not the way to go

The reason I say THIS is because THORACICOUTLETSYNDROME can be caused by by repetitive strain, and mine was.as I UNDERSTANDITthe first step getting better from repetitive STRAINinjury is to stop the activity that caused it. Of course you can build your way back up with a lot of these things. For example, with tennis elbow, FIRSTYOU want to allow the MICROTEARS time to heal. Then you want to rebuild the tendon by doing exercise. For people that never stopped, causing the micro terriers for a while, they have chronic tennis elbow.For people that never stopped, causing the micro terriers for a while, they have chronic tennis elbow.

But I’m hearing experts and thoracic syndrome say that this is chronic and you will want to avoid things like carrying a backpack and heavy lifting for life.But I’m hearing experts and thoracic syndrome say that this is chronic and you will want to avoid things like carrying a backpack and heavy lifting for life.

I’m also hearing oh you can just strengthen your scapula and then you’ll be fine and also your thoracic outlet syndrome doesn’t exist and nobody believes you.I’m also hearing oh you can just strengthen your scapula and then you’ll be fine and also your thoracic outlet syndrome doesn’t exist and nobody believes you.

So, I’m getting mixed messages here. Does anybody know the answer? Should I plan on doing heavy lifting and carrying a backpack or doing overhead work ever again? LMK if your answer is for ATOS, VTOS, or NTOS

Excuse, typo use of dictation