Shoulder Pain Treatment Specialists in NYC

Should I Worry About Shoulder Pain?

Shoulder pain affects the quality of your life by hindering your capacity to do normal daily tasks or even to do your work. With so much activity and flexibility in your shoulder, it’s a joint that’s prone to injuries and requires immediate pain treatment by an experienced doctor. Get help when your shoulder’s sore instead of worrying about it.

Your shoulders allow a wide range of motion. Any condition or injury affecting any shoulder component can lead to incapacitating shoulder pain and problems with flexibility. If you experience right shoulder pain, left shoulder pain or another form of discomfort in your shoulder, consult a pain specialist for immediate diagnosis and treatment.

Dr. Amr Hosny and the team of pain management specialists at New York Pain Care can deliver an early diagnosis of your shoulder pain. Located in Midtown Manhattan, the Financial District and Greenwich Village — as well as in Paramus, Riverdale, Englewood Cliffs, Cranford and East Brunswick, New Jersey — the paine clinic team offers treatment for a wide range of painful conditions.

What Causes Shoulder Pain?

There’s a wide range of potential reasons your shoulder hurts. Your doctor carries out a physical examination, conducts imaging tests and performs a review of your medical history to diagnose the source of your pain correctly.

Possible causes of your shoulder pain include:

• A shoulder sprain or strain
• Pinched nerves in the shoulder or neck
• Arthritis
• Bursitis
• A rotator cuff tear
• A sports injury
• Bone spurs
• A shoulder fracture
• Frozen shoulder
• Labral tear
• Torn biceps tendon
• Shoulder instability in the joint

By leveraging the latest medical technology, your shoulder pain doctor in NYC can diagnose the cause of your pain and start effective treatment. The team uses a non-surgical approach to treatment for shoulder pain.

Do I Have a Shoulder Injury?

A common source of shoulder pain is a shoulder injury.

Signs that you’ve injured your shoulder include:

• Sharp pain around your shoulder and neck
• Swelling in the affected shoulder
• Numbness, tingling or weakness in your arms
• The shoulder is warm to touch
• Tenderness and redness in the injury area
• A limited range of motion in the shoulder
• Pain at night and when resting
• Pain when moving your arm
• A distorted shape of your shoulder

When your doctor reviews your case, describe your symptoms fully. After a correct shoulder diagnosis, the appropriate treatment for shoulder pain can begin.

Why Do I Experience Shoulder Pain When Lifting Arm?

Factors that may create pain with lifting the shoulder include:

• Shoulder impingement usually results from the inflammation of the shoulder tendons. The supraspinatus or rotator cuff muscles are where tendinitis is most frequently encountered. Patients experience severe discomfort, weakness, and restricted movement.
• Rotator cuff injury. Rotator cuff tendonitis can be caused by both injuries and underlying degenerative disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. Rotator cuff bursitis is an inflammation of the bursa, the lining that provides cushioning between the bones and tendons.
• A frozen shoulder is another typical cause of shoulder pain when lifting. Inflammation in the ball socket joint lining typically causes the symptoms. The condition is frequently progressive and has no recognized etiology.

The complexity of the shoulder joint leaves it susceptible to injury. Hence, pain, particularly when lifting the arm, is one of the most common complaints when it comes to people seeking shoulder injury treatment in NYC. We’ll be happy to have a look and put your mind at rest using the least-invasive treatments as well as the most advanced surgical methods.

How Do I Know What Type of Shoulder Pain I Have?

Your condition and other factors, like your unique anatomy, posture, habits, and lifestyle, will all influence the sort of pain you experience. Some of the most common shoulder pain types you should be aware of include:

• Dull, aching shoulder pain could be due to rotator cuff tears, rotator cuff tendonitis, frozen shoulder, or glenohumeral osteoarthritis. This pain may be constant and feel deep, making it hard to sleep.
• Sharp or piercing shoulder pain may result from certain movements and could be due to a frozen shoulder, shoulder impingement syndrome, or AC joint arthritis.
• Shooting or radiating pain that travels down the arm or up the neck is due to damaged or pinched nerves. You may also feel numbness, pins, and needles, or a burning sensation.
• Warm, hot, or burning shoulder pain typically occurs due to inflammation. That’s a sign that your immune system is working to defend the body against infection or repair damaged tissue. Several shoulder conditions involve inflammation, such as arthritis and bursitis.

If you have shoulder pain, make a note of any additional symptoms you may be having, what makes them worse, whether they occur more frequently at particular times of the day, and whether anything relieves the pain. Then visit your shoulder pain specialist in NYC, and they will be better able to diagnose you using this information. If you have excruciating pain or numbness, persistent numbness, significant weakness, or trouble moving the joint, seek medical attention right away.

What’s the Best Shoulder Tendon Injury Treatment?

You can get a torn tendon if you fall sharply, stretch your arm out too far, or lift something heavy and too quickly.

Types of treatment include:

• Rest. This stops further damage and allows the torn rotator cuff and other injuries to heal.
• Over-the-counter pain medicines. These can include painkillers or anti-inflammatory medications, such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxers.
• Heat and cold treatment. You can reduce the pain and swell in your shoulder with a cold pack. Reduce stiffness by applying a heated pad on the painful area.
• Physical therapy. Your doctor may recommend mild exercises and stretching to relax the affected muscles and reduce stiffness.

Your pain management doctor is best placed to decide the best shoulder tendon injury treatment after assessing your case. The doctor always recommends non-invasive or minimally invasive remedies first.

What’s the Best Shoulder Instability Treatment?

Shoulder instability is a painful condition in which the ball of the shoulder joint doesn’t stay in the socket. Types of shoulder instability include shoulder dislocation, subluxation and a labral tear.

Treatment for shoulder instability includes:

• Pain medication and anti-inflammatory medication
• Modification of activity to reduce overstretching of the shoulder ligaments
• Physical therapy
• Ice pack treatment
• Medications, such as anti-inflammatories and pain relievers
• Surgery, in extreme cases of dislocation to repair torn ligaments, is often used for athletes who want to resume their sport

Right shoulder muscle pain is usually caused by overuse and is treated with many of the same techniques, along with activity modification to prevent further injury. Left shoulder pain sometimes is associated with a heart attack, so you should seek emergency care if it comes on suddenly.

How Is Shoulder Joint Pain Treated in General?

Shoulder joint pain can alter your life. You may find it difficult to move your upper body. Shoulder joint pain treatment depends on the underlying cause.

Following a firm diagnosis, your doctor may recommend interventional treatments for common shoulder injuries, such as:

• Physical therapy to boost the range of motion
• Chiropractic manipulations
• Corticosteroid injections contain an anesthetic for pain relief and a steroid to reduce inflammation.
• Disease-modifying treatment, such as for rheumatoid arthritis

If your painful shoulder affects your life, it’s time to get the best solution from the shoulder specialists  at New York Pain Care, led by Dr. Hosny. Contact the team today for an early diagnosis and effective shoulder pain treatment in NYC.

Our Board certified doctors

Amr Hosny, MD, MBA, FASABook Now David Chu, MD, FAAPMRBook Now Vivek Mehta, MD, FAAPMRBook Now Deepali Gupta, MD, DABA, DABPMBook Now

New York Pain Care
20 Squadron Blvd, Suite 290
New City, NY 10956
(212) 242-8160