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If you are suffering from shoulder pain, physiotherapy is a safe bet to regain the lost range of motion of the shoulder and its optimum function.  It will also speed up your return to normal day-to-day life.  The therapist may use various modalities to ameliorate your pain and improve the function of the muscles; it may include a few shoulder exercises.  However, if the pain persists, you may have to see an orthopedic and sometimes, a surgery may be the solution to correct your problem.  In a shoulder arthroscopy, surgical instruments are inserted to your shoulder through small portals.  The ...
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Before delving deep into USG or ultrasound-guided needling for calcification of rotator cuff, let’s first understand what a rotator cuff and calcification are. If you have ever had rotator cuff troubles, you might have heard about terms like rotator cuff tears, calcification, and discomfort and complications arising thereof.  The shoulder joint is the most flexible joint in our body that allows the arm to have an incredible range of motion.  This same advantage of the shoulder joint makes it more vulnerable to injuries and when injury happens the lack of mobility of this important joint can be particularly frustrating and ...
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Cortisone injections are aimed at relieving pain and inflammation in a particular area of the body.  Cortisone shots are generally given in joints, such as shoulder, wrist, ankle, hip and elbow as pain and tenderness in the seemingly small joints can be done away with this shot.  Apart from injecting into joints cortisone shots are widely used to treat inflammation that is widespread throughout the body, which could be due to allergic reactions, a bout of asthma attack or arthritis.  A cortisone shot generally consists of a local anesthetic and a corticosteroid medication.  You can have a cortisone injection at ...
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There could be a variety of reasons for your bilateral shoulder pain, ranging from strain and tension from muscles due to poor posture to overuse to trauma from an injury.  Do you know shoulder pain is one of the most common reasons for a person to seek medical help? The shoulder joint is the most mobile joint of the body.  Be it lifting a bucket of water or reaching up into the cupboard, given the number of everyday activities it is involved in, shoulder pain is something that you get from time to time.  Our shoulder has the flexibility to ...
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Before delving deep into the preparative part of the shoulder arthroscopy surgery, let’s have a quick look into what shoulder arthroscopy is.  Shoulder arthroscopy is an operative procedure to look into or repair tissues in and around your shoulder joint.   The operative surgeon will make a small cut (incision) in your shoulder and insert a thin wire containing camera at one end, called an arthroscope.  This allows the surgeon to have a closer view at the muscles, tissues, ligaments and bones of the shoulder joint.  If the joint needs a repair, the doctor will insert surgical instruments through other small ...
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A tendon is a fibrous tissue that connects a muscle to a bone.  When a tendon is injured, damaged or inflamed, in medical lexicon it is referred to by names such as tendinitis, tendinosis, tendinopathy, paratenonitis, tenosynovitis, and tendon tear (rupture).  Tendinitis and tendinosis are two medical terms which may sound identical and often both are confused with other, but in actuality both are different.  Tendinosis is a condition that is characterized by pain of a tendon, whereas tendinitis is a condition which shares many of the same symptoms but varies vastly in its cause and appearance. Main difference between ...
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