Causes
Shoulder pain causes include:
- Avascular Necrosis (Osteonecrosis) (The death of bone tissue due to limited blood flow.)
- Brachial Plexus Injury
- Broken Arm
- Broken Collerbone
- Bursitis (A condition in which small sacs that cushion the bones, tendons and muscles near joints become inflamed.)
- Cervical radiculopathy
- Dislocated Shoulder
- Frozen Shoulder
- Heart Attack
- Impingement
- Muscle Strains
- Osteoarthritis (The most common type of arthritis.)
- Polymyalgia Rhumetica
- Rhumetoid Arthritis
- Rotator Cuff Injury
- Separated shoulder
- Septic Arthritis
- Sprains (Stretching or tearing of a tissue band called a ligament, which connects two bones together in a joint.)
- Tendinitis (A condition that happens when swelling called inflammation affects a tendon.)
- Tendon rupture
- Thorasic Outlet Syndrome
- Torn cartilage