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Medical note: This archive is for general education. Seek urgent care for shoulder pain with chest pressure, shortness of breath, faintness, fever, major trauma or rapidly worsening symptoms.

Tags: Cancer, Shoulder Blade Posted in Shoulder Pain on December 7th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Esophageal Cancer

There is a type of pain that is called referred pain. In a lot of cases, shoulder pains are actually a referred pain. This simply means that the cause of the pain of a shoulder blade is not necessarily caused by a...

Tags: Gallstones, Treatments Posted in Uncategorized on November 9th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Gallstones

When you neglect to take care of your body, you can be sure to expect problems because your body is a delicate thing that needs care and if you want to remain healthy it is imperative that you give your body the care it...

Tags: Fibrous Tissues, Shoulder Blade Posted in Uncategorized on October 10th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Tendonitis

Do you know what the white, fibrous tissues you see that connects your muscles to your bones are called? Those are known as your tendons and when your tendons become inflamed or swollen, they result in what is known as...

Tags: Rheumatoid Arthritis Posted in Shoulder Pain on September 8th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Arthritis

Do you experience increasing shoulder pains while you do your activities? Have difficulty moving your shoulder fully? Do you hear clicking or snapping sounds whenever you move your shoulders? Or does pain strikes...

Tags: Heart Attacks Posted in Shoulder Pain on August 11th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Heart Attacks

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,...

Tags: Gallstones Posted in Uncategorized on July 8th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Attack of the Gallbladder

If you're not entirely sure what your gallbladder is, then most likely you are not aware that you can experience gallbladder attacks as well. If you were to do a quick search for images about the internal human body...

Tags: Cancer, Liver Posted in Uncategorized on June 9th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Liver Cancer

The human body is susceptible to all sorts of diseases but none of which are as bad as cancer. Cancer can be contracted on any part of the body and can attack any one of our organs, and one example of this is liver...

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

Muscle Injury

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...

Tags: Injury, Rheumatoid Arthritis Posted in Shoulder Pain on April 10th, 2009 by Andreas Xavier

Rotator Cuff Injury

The rotator cuff is made up of a group of four muscles that connect the humerus to the shoulder blades. This connection helps in the movement of arm lifting and rotating of the head. This group plays an important role...

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

Shoulder Blade Pain

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...