{"id":1177,"date":"2011-03-13T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastpointe.wpengine.com\/physical-therapy-for-shoulder-pain\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:47:29","slug":"physical-therapy-for-shoulder-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/physical-therapy-for-shoulder-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Therapy for Shoulder Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-migrated-cms-post\">\n<p><em><strong>By Mai Vu, Physical Therapis<\/strong><strong>t<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shoulder pain is one of the most common complaints that we see in our office. Some common causes of shoulder pain are:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Tendonitis <\/strong><\/span>\u2013 This occurs when inflammation is present in tendons. Tendons are the structures that connect muscles to bones.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Bursitis <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 This occurs when inflammation is present in a bursa. A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that helps to decrease friction when the body moves.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Tears <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 Tears can occur as a result of trauma such as a fall, or they can occur slowly over time. Tears can range from a microscopic level to a complete tear where the muscle or ligament is no longer attached.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Radiculopathy <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 This occurs when there is a problem with the nerves from the spine. The nerves from the neck travel across the shoulder and down the arm. When there is a problem in the spine, pain can be felt along the path of the nerves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When there is shoulder pain there are many structures that may be involved, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rotator Cuff which is comprised of 4 different muscles (supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Long head of the Biceps Tendon Subacromial Bursa Acromioclavicular Joint \u2013 this is where the clavicle (collar bone) meets the scapula (shoulder blade)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Glenohumeral Joint \u2013 this is where the scapula (shoulder blade) meets the humerus (upper arm bone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Labrum \u2013 this is part of the glenohumeral joint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The muscles, bones, and nerves from the neck (cervical spine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The muscles, bones, and nerves from the trunk (thoracic spine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will cover some of these topics in more detail in later posts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mai Vu, Physical Therapist Shoulder pain is one of the most common complaints that we see in our office. Some common causes of shoulder pain are: Tendonitis \u2013 This occurs when inflammation is present in tendons. Tendons are the structures that connect muscles to bones. Bursitis \u2013 This occurs when inflammation is present in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physical-therapy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 06:17:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/integrated-healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}