Ever did ice therapy to relax your pain or ever did hot water sake to give rest to your feet after a long tiring day? Yes, everyone does that. Little pain because of tiredness or workout is acceptable but if the same pain gets prolonged, things gets a bit complicated. Shoulder pain is one such big time pain which can either be for a day or two or it could be for a lifelong.
How to diagnose the cause of prolonged shoulder pain?
Blood test can help you identify the cause of pain maybe it could be arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis however; this blood test is not a confirmatory test.
X-rays can help you know the cause of pain if it is related to your bones or joints
Ultrasound helps well but this is again restricted in giving better accuracy only when it comes to soft tissues lying inside the shoulder.
Is there any treatment for prolonged shoulder pain?
Initially, painkillers are given which helps them give relief.If the pain is bad, doctor will continue giving sessions to the patients till the things are at place and these sessions might include giving steroid injections on the shoulder if any painkiller is not affecting.
Apart from this, physiotherapy does wonders. Paraffin wax baths, cryotherapy helps in giving relief to the patients to it is mostly said, physiotherapist and orthopaedic go hand in hand. By- Dt. Trishala Chopra
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