Shoulder Pain
Overview For Shoulder Pain
The shoulder is one of the most complex joints in the body, made up of your scapula, clavicle and the humerus. It requires the most amount of motion to enable you to use it in the way you need. Unfortunately, it can easily become injured, partly due to it’s high mobility producing shoulder pain. Shoulder pain can, in some cases, massively limit you on a day to day basis.
There are many conditions that affect the shoulder, one of the most common is when the large muscle that covers the side and back of your neck becomes tight. This is called an Upper Trapezius Overactivity. This can happen due to poor posture or desk posture, simply spending long periods of time at the computer or when this muscle is compensating for poor shoulder mechanics. This is issue is either perceived as shoulder pain or a neck pain due to this muscle attaching from the neck to the shoulder. You can see this muscle in the following picture.
Other common conditions we see in practice are described below include Frozen Shoulder & Rotator Cuff Injuries.
Frozen shoulder (also called adhesive capsulitis) is most common in middle age woman but can affect men and those younger too. This condition occurs when the glenohumeral joint (main shoulder joint) becomes painful, stiff and restricted due to the development of inflammation…
Rotator cuff injuries may include a simple strain to the muscle or a tear within one of the rotator cuff muscles. Typically a rotator cuff injury will suddenly come on after a specific injury mechanism or by repetitive overhead shoulder movements and cause what is known as a painful arc.
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