Shoulder pain makes it extremely difficult to perform simple everyday activities like lifting up hand, reaching out, picking things up and more. As a result, your quality of life is affected in a major way. Shoulder pain can be reduced when treated with physiotherapy. If you are living with shoulder pain, do not compromise anymore because help is just a call away at SwaHealth Physiotherapy Rehab Clinic.
What is Shoulder Pain?
Shoulder is a complex ball and socket joint that is composed of three bones- your collarbone (clavicle), upper arm bone (humerus) and the shoulder blade(scapula). It has number of ligaments and muscles attached to it from your back, chest and arms. Any injury to any of those bones, ligaments or muscles can result in shoulder pain.
The real question is, how severe is your shoulder pain? Is it there for quite sometime, restricting your normal movements, affecting your quality of life? If the answers to these questions is โYESโ, you should seriously consider physiotherapy for pain relief and recovery.
Causes of Shoulder Pain
Here are few of the reasons that may cause pain.
Rotator Cuff Tendonitis
The rotator cuff is made of the four main muscles that allow you to move your shoulder. These muscles help to hold your upper arm bone to the shoulder joint when you move your arm. The tendons from these muscles are attached on shoulder blade. In case any of these attachments get injured, the result is tendonitis which sometimes causes very intense pain.
Frozen Shoulder or Adhesive Capsulitis
Frozen shoulder or Adhesive Capsulitis, is a condition that brews up slowly and cannot be identified by X-ray. With time, frozen shoulders become so painful that everyday activities like reaching out to your back pocket, combing your hairor moving your arm becomes difficult.
Fracture
A shoulder fracture is a result of accident. It can be a sports injury, result of car accident or simply falling on one hand. In post fracture immobilization or post surgery, physio rehab plays an important role.
Bursitis
Bursa are fluid filled sacs that sits between shoulder blade and arm bone to help them glide over each other smoothly. If the bursa is in anyway affected, it leads to shoulder bursitis, which causes painful movement.
Physiotherapy for Shoulder Pain
The first step in your treatment will be evaluating the root-cause of the shoulder pain. Your physiotherapist will ask you questions about your activities linked to your pain, conduct specialized tests and determine the source.
You will be recommended a customized treatment protocol to suit your specific need depending on the evaluation. Your treatment may include manual therapy, use of specialized therapy machines and therapeutic exercises to improve the function of your shoulder muscles and ligaments.
Book Your Appointment Today!
Do not suffer from shoulder pain any more. Physiotherapy is the proven treatment module that will give you relief from your shoulder pain and improve your ability to move after injury or surgery.
Contact SwaHealth Physiotherapy Rehab to schedule an appointment with a physiotherapist.
