I'm glad you had your primary care doctor to ask. I'm sorry you and the ortho didn't make sure you understood one another and come up with the straight scoop. I think they're into "bones" so the whole soft tissue thing and "shoulder" versus "collar bone" probably went over their head.

I had that happen with my primary care when I was taking antibiotics and complained my "ankle" hurt and he told me it was because I was getting old (I was 52). The antibiotic was later shown to cause achilles tendons to burst! I was lucky and didn't have that happen but it took forever for the pain to go away and to quit limping and now I keep bugging doctors if I don't like what they say or they don't say enough.