Donnna, Unfortunatly I have a feeling that there isn't much to be done with the tight feeling. I'm still dealing with that myself on the side of the first surgery, and it's been almost a year now. Notice it feels worse when I'm more active, getting more active as going from the state of rest to moving about.

Startig excersizes to start building back upper body muscles, and notice they aggravate it also. I had also asked my doctors about it and I have this sense they don't really know what to do about it also.

Sorry I can't be a big help on this other than to say others have the same issue too.
Bob