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What Causes Severe Pain In The Left Arm?
For the past month or so, I haven t been able to lift my left arm up past about shoulder height without extreme pain in that shoulder. Absolutely fine to use as long as I don t raise my arm up. Do not remember doing anything to cause this. Please advise.
Wed, 28 Nov 2018
Hello,
This may be due to the muscles and tendons that go through the shoulder and we call it rotator cuff syndrome.
You can benefit a lot from a combination of NSAIDs with physiotherapy so you can have a visit with a physiotherapist and get exercises to help increase the range of movement in the shoulder.
If this does not help enough sometimes a steroid injection in the shoulder joint can help as well.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Antoneta Zotaj, General & Family Physician
This may be due to the muscles and tendons that go through the shoulder and we call it rotator cuff syndrome.
You can benefit a lot from a combination of NSAIDs with physiotherapy so you can have a visit with a physiotherapist and get exercises to help increase the range of movement in the shoulder.
If this does not help enough sometimes a steroid injection in the shoulder joint can help as well.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Antoneta Zotaj, General & Family Physician
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