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What Causes Bone Pain From Shoulder To Elbow?
Question: My right hand as a shotting bone pain from past 5 days and aggrevates in the night often waking me up no visible swelling nor any inguries. The pain is from shoulder joint till elbow cannot lift hand or moove backwards.
Brief Answer:
Tendonitis or sprain likely.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting your query.
There can be several reasons for pain like you have. If you did not have an injury while playing or otherwise, I suppose its something to do with your tendons or ligaments rather than bones. Most common reason is a mild sprain or Tendonitis and Tenosynovitis which are both types of tendon injury. They can often occur together.
You need to give it some rest for a while, use hot fomentation twice a day and local ointment for pain relief. Avoid gripping and lifting objects and any overhead activities altogether. Keep your arm in most comfortable position. Watch for worsening of symptoms like increase in pain, appearance of swelling and tingling numbness in fingers. If you get any of these, visit your physician and get a check up done followed by investigations like X ray or MRI.
You can take mild pain killers like ibuprofen till then for pain relief.
I hope this answers your query.
In case you have additional questions or doubts, you can forward them to me, and I shall be glad to help you out.
Wishing you good health.
Regards.
Dr. Praveen Tayal.
For future query, you can directly approach me through my profile URL http://bit.ly/Dr-Praveen-Tayal
Tendonitis or sprain likely.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting your query.
There can be several reasons for pain like you have. If you did not have an injury while playing or otherwise, I suppose its something to do with your tendons or ligaments rather than bones. Most common reason is a mild sprain or Tendonitis and Tenosynovitis which are both types of tendon injury. They can often occur together.
You need to give it some rest for a while, use hot fomentation twice a day and local ointment for pain relief. Avoid gripping and lifting objects and any overhead activities altogether. Keep your arm in most comfortable position. Watch for worsening of symptoms like increase in pain, appearance of swelling and tingling numbness in fingers. If you get any of these, visit your physician and get a check up done followed by investigations like X ray or MRI.
You can take mild pain killers like ibuprofen till then for pain relief.
I hope this answers your query.
In case you have additional questions or doubts, you can forward them to me, and I shall be glad to help you out.
Wishing you good health.
Regards.
Dr. Praveen Tayal.
For future query, you can directly approach me through my profile URL http://bit.ly/Dr-Praveen-Tayal
Note: For further queries, consult a joint and bone specialist, an Orthopaedic surgeon. Book a Call now.
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