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…
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…
I would say yes, only in this setting when you’ve had an injury. Otherwise, you’re kind of wasting your time. Seriously. If you fall or something happens to where you go from having a pretty normal shoulder to a severely painful shoulder and you can’t use your arm, you should go into the ER. If…
We’ve evolved in surgery massively. I tell patients that contemporary shoulder surgery done with modern techniques, anesthesia, pain medicine protocols, and rehab techniques is not nearly what it was 15 or 20 years ago. Anytime you go inside someone’s body and change something, there’s going to be some discomfort. There’s just no way around that…
Just take it easy. The majority of our patients get a nerve block. The advantage is that you don’t feel anything in the operative shoulder for the first one to two days. The disadvantage is that you can’t move your arm because the nerves are blocked. They’re numb. So that’s when you’re wearing the sling…
