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Suggest Remedy For Pain In Neck Radiating Down To Shoulder Blade And Arm
I have pain from my neck and radiates down to my shoulder blade and down my arm. Sometimes feels like electric shock going down from my neck to my hand. I have excruciating pain on a daily basis in my neck and shoulder blade. Only my left shoulder. I have had an ultrasound and xray and it showed some arthritis and some inflammation of the tendon. But the pain is so bad that it has to be much more than that. It is especially bad when I am sitting down on the computer or driving. At rest it sometimes hurts as well. I have not been able to sleep for a long time.
Tue, 12 Apr 2016
hi,
thank-you for providing the brief history of you.
As you mentioned your symptoms, for me it appears to be more of the Radiating pain from the Cervical spine to the hand .
These symptoms are mostly due to Cervical spine disc degenerative changes. based on the Neuromuscular assessment it will be possible to figure out the level of the nerve getting pinched in the cervical spine.
Also, some otheopedica and Neurological test will be performed to manually in clinic configure out if the pain is due to the neruolgical factor or it is due to orthopedic factors. With the test it will even help assess the injury is dude to Cervical spine or due to shoulder pathology
once confirmed with the special clinical tests, the MRI is guided for the cervical spine to see the extent of the nerve root injury.
Post that a physcial therapy will be advised as to reduce the pain and inflammation by means of therapeutic ultrasound therapy and TENS therapy. Also, at later stages exercises will be taught to imporve the strength in the muscles of the neck region and upper limb as a whole.
As per my experience 99% cases have received physcial therapy with 99% of success.
I recommend you to follow this guidelines as to help better. Do regular exercises even in future to avoid the remissions of the symptoms.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
thank-you for providing the brief history of you.
As you mentioned your symptoms, for me it appears to be more of the Radiating pain from the Cervical spine to the hand .
These symptoms are mostly due to Cervical spine disc degenerative changes. based on the Neuromuscular assessment it will be possible to figure out the level of the nerve getting pinched in the cervical spine.
Also, some otheopedica and Neurological test will be performed to manually in clinic configure out if the pain is due to the neruolgical factor or it is due to orthopedic factors. With the test it will even help assess the injury is dude to Cervical spine or due to shoulder pathology
once confirmed with the special clinical tests, the MRI is guided for the cervical spine to see the extent of the nerve root injury.
Post that a physcial therapy will be advised as to reduce the pain and inflammation by means of therapeutic ultrasound therapy and TENS therapy. Also, at later stages exercises will be taught to imporve the strength in the muscles of the neck region and upper limb as a whole.
As per my experience 99% cases have received physcial therapy with 99% of success.
I recommend you to follow this guidelines as to help better. Do regular exercises even in future to avoid the remissions of the symptoms.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
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