Symptoms
Shoulder pain
Definition
Causes
When to see a doctor
Causes
Shoulder pain causes include:
- Avascular necrosis (death of bone tissue due to limited blood flow)
- Brachial plexus injury
- Broken arm
- Broken collarbone
- Bursitis (joint inflammation)
- Cervical radiculopathy
- Dislocated shoulder
- Frozen shoulder
- Heart attack
- Impingement
- Osteoarthritis (disease causing the breakdown of joints)
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rheumatoid arthritis (inflammatory joint disease)
- Rotator cuff injury
- Separated shoulder
- Septic arthritis
- Sprains
- Tendinitis
- Tendon rupture
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Torn cartilage