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Sudden Acute Shoulder Pain
I am a 56 year old male and have been physically active my entire life. I generally have a lot of energy and love to work out. As I've gotten older I've noticed my body just doesn't recover the same way it used to. In my mid 20's I injured my right shoulder bench pressing. I recieved therapy and it seemed to heal ok. I continued to work out with heavy weights and had an occasional flair up. I guess over time I over used my shoulders. In 2016 I was tied of the pain in my right shoulder and had rotator cuff surgery. Should is pretty good now but I never regained the flexability I previously had. The left should had it aches and pains now and then but they would always go away after a few days. About 2 months ago when I woke up in the morning my left shoulder was in pretty bad pain. Probably a 7 or 8. I rested and iced it for the 1st week and the pain decrease quite a bit but has never gone away. After a month a dealing with pain I saw a doctor. He did xrays and said there was nothing he could see wrong with it. He offered PT or I could just stretch it with videos online. I chose the videos online. It did get a tiny bit better but now it feels like frozen shoulder. I have limited range of motion with sharp pain. I guess I need to go back and see the doc but I was wondering if there was something else I could do at home.
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Maybe get an mri? I had a lot of pain and weakness in my left shoulder affecting my daily activities and workouts. Finally went to the dr. X-ray showed nothing but mri showed arthropathy, high grade rotator cuff tear and arthritis.
See if dr will send you to pt, that helped me a lot. They will probably give you exercises to do at home as well.
jack10525, Ouch! Frozen shoulder issues are so painful.
I had a frozen shoulder in the left shoulder in 1999. I did pt, chiropractor, injection, exercises, etc., nothing
helped. After 9 months, I went ahead and got the surgery. I wish I had done it sooner. It took 3 months to
get my range of motion back and heal. I got full range of motion back. The doctor told me, don't be surprised if the other shoulder does the same thing.
Two years later, the right shoulder was frozen and with bone spurs. I did not mess around for 9 months with
it and went ahead and had the surgery. It took me 4 months to recover completely and get my range of
motion back in the right shoulder.
I'm so glad I went ahead and had the surgery. I had a wonderful sports medicine orthopedic surgeon that did
the surgery on both. Are you seeing a sports medicine doctor? It makes all the difference.
Blessings & Prayers.....
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Michael Molchanow