Pain in Shoulders

Muscle Injury

Tags: Injury, Muscles
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

It does not take a tear in the tendons to define a muscle injury.  Muscle strain or muscle stress is one of the very common muscle injuries that could happen to anyone. Holding any one muscle at a particular position for an extensive time will indeed risk you to having muscle injuries.  A simple act of carrying your backpack to school everyday would be good enough to start the journey of muscle injuries. This continuous act would tire and strain the shoulder muscles.

Even slouching for long periods of time would cause the neck muscles to work harder in order to support the weight of the head. This act narrows down the space where the rotator cuff tendons pass through in the shoulder joint thus straining the muscles between the shoulder blades.

Muscle sprain usually occurs when the muscles are excessively pulled. Usually this occurs when the muscles are torn or damaged. This happens when extreme force is implied to the shoulder joints. Athletes are the common victims of muscle sprains. Baseball, tennis, basketball and weight lifting enthusiasts, just to name a few are those who would have a higher risk in suffering from this type of muscle injury. Repeated actions would cause repeated sprains in the same joint thus causing the joint to be less stable and more prone to future sprains.

A rotator cuff tear is a form of muscle injury. This happens when one or more of the four muscles that form a covering around the humerus are torn. Most tears occurred are due to overused muscles and tendons over a period of years. Rotator cuff tear is a common cause of shoulder pain amongst adults, usually affecting people over the age of forty.

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Shoulder Blade Pain

Tags: Muscles, Shoulder Blade
Posted in Shoulder Pain on March 12th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Aside from your leg muscles, your shoulder blades are probably one of the most common muscle groups which are frequently in use. Because they connect to the arm muscles too, you tend to engage them a lot whenever we do things such as lifting, exercising or even just stretching. The shoulder blades are surrounded by a lot of other tissue muscles as well, and when either on of these muscles gets injured, that is when you start to experience shoulder blade pains.

Shoulder blade pains can affect anyone, regardless of your age because everyone uses their shoulder blade muscles even when they go about doing the everyday things that they do during their daily life. Shoulder blade pains can affect the young, or the old, depending on what you do and what the cause of the shoulder blade pain is, because shoulder blade pains can be caused by a few different factors.

One of the reasons that you might experience shoulder blade pain – and this applies to the more senior citizens- is because when you age, your shoulder blade muscles tend not to be as strong as they use to be. And when you place too much stress on the muscles, it can result in aches and pains experienced because of the tension and pressure placed onto the muscles which is more than it can bear. So senior citizens, be careful about doing anything to strenuous, you don’t want to injure yourself.

Another reason for shoulder blade pains is due to exercise. Whenever we perform any sort of exercise that may be new to our bodies, we tend to experience muscle aches and pains the next day because of the stress the muscle went through, especially if you are new to exercise or a beginner. Shoulder blade pains can also occur if you strain your muscle too much it becomes swollen, inflamed or even torn.

So when you perform any sort of activity or exercise, be careful not to place too much strain on your shoulder blade muscles if you want to stay away from injury.

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