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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: 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: 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...