Rotator Cuff Tear
Weakness or pain lifting the arm out to the side, reaching behind you, or sleeping on that shoulder. Often after a fall, or after years of overhead work.
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Shoulder Pain: Common Causes and Conditions
Shoulder pain is rarely just a sore shoulder. The more useful question is which part of it has stopped doing its job, because that's what changes the plan. A shoulder that's gone stiff in every direction is a different problem from one that only hurts overhead, or one that has never felt trustworthy since a fall.
Pick whichever description below sounds most like what you've been dealing with.
Conditions we see in this region
Frozen Shoulder
Stiffness in every direction, including when someone else moves the arm for you. Comes on gradually and moves through stages.
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A pinch or catch through one particular part of the range as the arm goes up, often easing once you're past it.
Read moreSLAP Tear
SLAP stands for Superior Labrum, Anterior to Posterior. The labrum is the rim of cartilage that deepens your shoulder socket. The long head of the biceps tendon attaches to it at the top, and that's where these tears happen
Read moreBiceps Tendon Rupture
A rupture at the shoulder usually follows tendon wear that's been building for a while. Uncommonly, a severely worn tendon gives way altogether
Read moreBiceps Tendinopathy
Biceps tendinopathy is thickening and irritation of the biceps tendon at the front of the shoulder. It often starts without any known injury.
Read moreShoulder Dislocation
A dislocated shoulder is the ball at the top of your upper arm bone coming out of its shallow socket. Most often it comes out the front.
Read moreAC Joint Sprain
Your AC joint is where the far end of your collarbone meets the top of your shoulder blade. A sprain means the ligaments holding that joint together have been stretched or torn.
Read moreSubacromial (Shoulder) Bursitis
Subacromial bursitis is inflammation of a small, fluid-filled cushioning sac (a bursa) under the bony point at the top of your shoulder
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