It's pretty common to get radiating pain from a herniated disc in your neck down through the shoulder. You feel pain in the shoulder, but if it's purely your neck, it doesn't hurt to move your shoulder. If you can do whatever you want with that shoulder, lift, move, do anything with your right, it doesn't exacerbate or make the…
Intuitively, you would think, “Oh, it's tight.” The human shoulder is different. Most of its problems are the source of stress. The system is overly stressed. Why is it stressed? Most of the time, it's due to rotator cuff pathology or instability. That causes some sliding of the ball and socket, which stretching can make it worse. You need to…
Surprisingly, it's not in your shoulder joint, and most patients do report pain in the joint. Sometimes it's anterior. They point in the front and your long-head biceps, which is typically part of the problem there, too. But a lot of time, people put a point down in the deltoid, this kind of shell on the outside of your shoulder…
What is the first line of treatment for shoulder pain? Before you can treat a problem, you have to figure out what the problem is. A shoulder specialist is the best person to find out what the problem is. Now, I understand you don't want to go to the doctor for every ache and pain. If the pain is relatively…
Pain in your arms can mean a million things. As a shoulder specialist, I see a ton of people with pain in their arm that, from the shoulder radiating down the arm, can be a pinched nerve in your neck. Strokes typically don't cause much pain going down the arms when they can, but most times you just see acute…
For this, it would be rotator cuff pathology. It would be pinching impingement or tendonitis of the rotator cuff muscles. When you elevate, if you look at the human shoulder, there's an acromion here, the rotator cuff slides underneath it. If there's weakness or tearing of the rotator cuff, you can get some impingement symptoms, which is the number one…
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