Sometimes My Shoulder Kills Me Then Sometimes It’s Fine!! What’s Going on and Why?

I hear about this situation almost every day and people are worried that they can’t be helped BUT very rarely is it too late. The intermittent pain with certain movements is a warning sign that there is usually some fraying in the tendons of shoulder muscles.

Our life as you know is shaped to have us leaning forward, head down, shoulders forward, while sitting in front of a computer screen. Does that sound familiar? We then wonder why we can’t go exercise full speed, play sports or just play with our kids without feeling increased pain. We see this all the time and it’s normal to have these problems as we get older but they DO lead to a surgery when left untreated.

Our bodies will try to heal that area consistently by sending tons of fluid into it as kind of a “clean-up crew.” The problem is that inflammation and fluid buildup causes pain and over the long term our bodies start to adapt to that being a problem area so that fluid gets stagnant and our “normal” inflammation level is way too high. Then as the inflammation and pain stay for longer and longer, leaving those times of pain relief few and far between.