How Do You Break Up Scar Tissue in Your Shoulder Blade?

This is an interesting question.

Most of the time, when your shoulder is tight and you’re not moving, it’s because of a scar in the glenohumeral joint. People can have scapulothoracic bursitis and some scar tissue there.

The best way to start is just with therapy and working on stretching and strengthening. Occasionally, a cortisone shot can help it. Then rarely, a couple of times a year, I’ll do a surgery where I go in arthroscopically, and I excise the bursa behind your shoulder blade.

There are many different things, but you want to ensure that’s the right diagnosis, which would be uncommon, but we do see it. In order to make sure you get the right diagnosis, see someone who does nothing but shoulders all day, every day. They specialize in that area of the body because they’re going to be able to get the right diagnosis the fastest and recommend the right treatments.