What organ can cause right shoulder pain? You can get referred pain from different areas of your body into your right shoulder from your neck. Sometimes people with cardiac issues can get radiating pain into either shoulder. In general, if it hurts to use your shoulder, if you feel pain on the side of the shoulder it hurts to lift…
The biggest ones I would say, does it impact your sleep at night? The second thing would be, do you have profound weakness in your arm? Do you notice that you're significantly weak? The third thing would just be pain that stops you from doing what you want to do. If any of those three questions are yes, you should…
Most patients are surprised to hear that the pain they feel may be on the side of their arm is due to a torn cuff. This is extremely common. People feel pain down the deltoid insertion and mid-humerus up on the side. If you have pain in the front, you can feel pain radiating up to the trap and then…
I'm gonna keep this simple. You shouldn't do things that cause a high level of pain. In general, our protocols are right after surgery, we allow gentle, active motion like the hand to head, but not higher. We don't want you to lift your arms. That’s what you won't want to do right after surgery. We don't want heavy lifting.…
This is a question we get a lot from our patients. If you have pain in your shoulder, I still actually encourage everyone to continue to exercise and even do exercises with their shoulder. But I don't want you to do things that hurt. In general, if you can see your hand, it's less stress on the cuff. If you're…
Absolutely. But you won't cause damage to your shoulder by sleeping on it. It may be sore from sleeping awkwardly, but more often than not people have trouble sleeping at night because they're laying on a shoulder that has chronic wear and tear, whether it's a rotator cuff or arthritis or a label tear or could just be tendonitis on…
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