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St. Mary Physio Team
Find out why that pain in your shoulder and elbow is causing so much irration as well as ways to treat it.
Shoulders.
Four joints are present in the shoulder: the sternoclavicular (SC), acromioclavicular (AC), scapulothoracic joints (SH), and glenohumeral joint (GH). The main shoulder joint (GH), is a joint with the most extensive range of motion in the human body and it is the most movable joint in the body.
But it is also an unstable joint because the ball of the upper arm is larger than the socket of the shoulder, it is at risk of injury. The shoulder joint is supported by surroundings tissues. including muscles (rotator cuff, biceps, triceps etc) ligaments (glenohumeral, oraco-acromial, oraco-clavicular, and transverse humeral ligament), bursa, capsule etc.
AC Joint
The shoulder muscles have a wide range of functions. Most common injuries of the shoulder are shoulder instability, arthritis, rotator cuff tear, tendonitis or tendinosis, calcified tendonitis, frozen shoulder, overuse strain, fractures,impingement syndrome, also sometimes the problem at the glenohumeral joints or the other joints even the neck and it just manifests as shoulder pain.
Most Common Symptoms:
• Difficulty with pain sometimes radiates to below elbow when moving the affected shoulder mainly raising over head or reaching behind the back with some weakness.
• A dully, achy sensation or pain mainly pinching pain in the shoulder and upper arm which gets worse after laying or sleeping on affected arm.
If you require a physiotherapy treatment make a booking to see us.
Treatment
Physiotherapy includes education, manual therapy, rehabilitation exercises including stretching, strengthening and functional mobility exercises, modalities, acupunctures, and dry needling.
Cortisone injection or even surgeries depending on the pain and how serious the injury. If you are suffering from shoulder pain book an appointment to find out how we can help.
Treatment
Elbow Pain & Treatment
Elbow joint includes, ulno-humeral, radioulnar, and radio-humeral joints which allow for simple movements in the form of extension, flexion, supination and pronation of the forearm.
Elbow pain is often caused by overuse or injury, most daily activities movements including sports require repetitive movements of the elbow which is called overuse, its pain can be the result of any injury of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments or joints.
Sometimes some disease like arthritis can cause elbow pain, most common elbow pain are epicondylitis, which could be either laterally (tennis elbow )or medially (golf elbow), difference between them the lateral one responsible about moving the wrist upside movement or extension (prayer`s position)but the medial one responsible about moving the wrist down movement toward the palm, also elbow can have bursitis suck as olecranon bursitis.
Elbow Treatment
Physiotherapy includes electrotherapy modalities, stretching exercises, strengthening exercises, acupuncture, manual therapy and braces. Again if you are experiencing elbow pain contact your doctor or schedule an appointment with our team.