| A shoulder Ache is the symptom to many | | | | shoulder joint, and because it is made up by a |
| common conditions that can affect people of any | | | | complex set up of tendons, membranes and |
| age, but more frequently people over 40. The | | | | bones to allow a wide range of motion, it can also |
| root causes of a shoulder ache can be different, | | | | be the target of different ailments, such as |
| but they all lead to impairment to different | | | | Impingement, Bursitis, Tendonitis, and Frozen |
| degrees. Normally the person affected feels a light | | | | Shoulder (Adhesive Capsulitis). |
| tingle that gradually grows worse, especially at | | | | All of these conditions do cause ache to various |
| night. Sometimes the pain persists without | | | | degrees and can be cured with professionally |
| affecting movement, other times the ache | | | | designed stretching shoulder exercises to short |
| subsides but the shoulder affected loses full range | | | | cut recovery times. This is very important to |
| of motion. | | | | remember because the shoulder joint, due to its |
| A shoulder ache can initially be treated with non | | | | complexity, can take many months or even few |
| steroidal anti inflammatory drugs, such as aspirin | | | | years to heal naturally, unless proper care is taken |
| or ibuprofen, or prescription drugs, or cortisone | | | | of. |
| injections, depending on gravity. Drugs as always | | | | I was personally affected by a Frozen Shoulder |
| should be treated as a temporary relief and only | | | | that started with a dull ache on my left shoulder |
| as part of a shoulder rehabilitation program. In the | | | | that wouldn't let me sleep at night, and ended up |
| most sever cases manipulation or surgery under | | | | with a half range of motion in my arm that took |
| general anesthesia can be performed. | | | | 15 months to go away, and it could have taken |
| But this is completely avoidable in the majority of | | | | even longer was it not for a professional |
| cases to return the rotator cuff to full | | | | rehabilitation program. |
| functionality. Rotator cuff is the technical term for | | | | |