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…
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…
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 rotator cuff 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
