Suggest Treatment For Tendinitis And Pain In Neck, Shoulder And Arm

Posted on Tue, 15 Nov 2016

Question: Hello I hope I can shed some light for about a week and a half now I have been having neck shoulder and arm discomfort I did see my gp she said it is probably muscle and tendinitis sleeping in wrong position I am due to go back and see her again tomorrow the pain is worse at rest and if I sit in certain positions both sides hurt but the left is more I do have c4 c5 issues I just want to make sure it isn't anything we r missing should I be asking my gp for another test of some kind

Answered by Dr. Naval Mendiratta (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Tendinitis

Detailed Answer:
good evening.

thank. you for writing on health care magic

Well, the sort of pain you are saying does look like coming from the shoulder. But we need to see the exact origin of it from the shoulder. It doesn't look like from the neck as you said it is limited to the arms only.. C4 C5 will be going till the hands and fingers as well.

But saying that shoulder is a big joint and has a lot of structures in it. Some of them get reversed early. some take time. I would suggest when you meet your gp, ask him to get an Ultrasound done for the shoulder. If it is bursitis or tendinitis it will get reversed with local injection. But if there is any ligament tear we need to consult an orthopods then....

Hope the information was useful. do let me know for more queries

regards
dr naval

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