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    Posted in Shoulder Pain on August 11th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

    Shoulder pain is one of the classic signs of impending heart attack. Usually the crushing pain will begin from the chest and will spread to the neck, jaw and may eventually spread on to the left shoulder. In many cases, pain radiating on the shoulders are felt and the pain may be present for up to twelve hours.

    The male generally experiences these classic symptoms.  Females on the other hand, frequently reported that pain between the shoulder blades are the more frequent first symptom experienced in having a heart attack.

    Nearly 40% of women do not feel any acute pain in the chest while they might just experience some difficulty in breathing. However, more often than not they experience numbness and cramping in the shoulders and back. As the days lead up to a heart attack, spreading of pain from the shoulders to the neck and jaw occurs. Medical professionals have not been able to adequately explain while the female experience a different route of symptoms of impending heart attacks.

    After recovering from a heart attack, the patient may be open to risks of being affected by frozen shoulder. Frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis is a painful condition where the shoulder experiences a severe loss of motion. Due to severe inflammation to the joint capsule, the loose tissue of the joint that allows motion would stick together which in other words causes a freezing effect. This freezing effect would then impose limitations to shoulder and arm movement. A simple action such as moving the arm in a circular motion could be locked from moving pass a semicircle motion.  The shoulder would hurt when shoulder movement reaches the limit of the range of motion and pain could be relatively intense during the night.

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