What causes shoulder splint pain

If you want to effectively relieve shoulder blade pain, you need to analyze and understand the cause. Long-term muscle spasm and deformation, excessive labor, improper posture, or excessive force, etc., these problems can easily cause shoulder blade pain.

1. Causes of shoulder blade pain

①Caused by prolonged muscle spasm and deformation. This disease mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old. The basic factors are soft tissue degeneration and reduced ability to withstand various external forces.

② The chronic injury caused by long-term excessive activity, poor posture, etc. is the main triggering factor.

③If the patient's upper limbs are injured and the shoulder is immobilized for too long, it will cause secondary atrophy and adhesion of the surrounding tissues of the shoulder, resulting in pain symptoms.

④ Improper treatment after acute contusion or strain of the shoulder, etc.

2. Symptoms of shoulder blade pain

⑴ Shoulder pain

At first, the shoulder pain is paroxysmal, most of which are chronic attacks. Later, the pain gradually intensifies or becomes sudden, or knife-like, and is continuous. The pain is often aggravated by climate change or fatigue. The pain can spread to the neck and upper limbs (especially the elbows). When the shoulder is accidentally hit or pulled, it often causes tearing pain. Shoulder pain is lighter during the day and heavier at night. This is a major feature of this disease. Most patients often complain of waking up in pain in the second half of the night and being unable to fall asleep, especially unable to lie on the affected side. This situation is more obvious in those caused by blood deficiency. If the pain is caused by cold, the patient will be particularly sensitive to climate change.

(2) Restricted activities

The movement of the shoulder joint in all directions may be restricted, and it is more obvious in abduction, elevation, internal and external rotation. As the disease progresses, long-term disuse causes adhesion of the joint capsule and the soft tissues around the shoulder, and the muscle strength gradually decreases. In addition, the coracohumeral ligament is fixed in a shortened internal rotation position and other factors, which restricts the active and passive movement of the shoulder joint in all directions. When the shoulder joint is abducted, the typical "shoulder carrying" phenomenon occurs, especially combing the hair, dressing, washing the face, and putting hands on the waist are difficult to complete. In severe cases, the function of the elbow joint may also be affected. When the elbow is flexed, the hand cannot touch the shoulder on the same side, especially when the arm is extended backward, the elbow flexion movement cannot be completed.