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Exercise and Fitness

JayhawkSD

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5. Shoulder pain can be caused by an auto-immune disease

Reply to Aerows (Original post)

Sun Jul 20, 2014, 01:52 AM

Jul 2014

It's called "giant cell arteritis" and it normally affects the carotids, causing jaw and/or head pain, but it can affect arteries which manifest in the shoulders. Steroids alleviate it, but they have to be administered for a fairly long period to cure it. A blood test will tell whether or not you have it, and is the only definitive diagnosis.

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Shoulder pain. It feels 20 times better when I hang [View all] Aerows Jul 2014 OP

had an mri and cortisone shot 2 weeks ago in rt. shoulder mark eagledove Jul 2014 #1

This has haunted me for quite a while Aerows Jul 2014 #2

I know. I work in a Radiology Dept... it is the definition of excruciating mark eagledove Jul 2014 #3

LOL, take heart it will only get worse Aerows Jul 2014 #4

Shoulder pain can be caused by an auto-immune disease JayhawkSD Jul 2014 #5

This is due to a car accident Aerows Jul 2014 #12

Here could be why! Melissa G Jul 2014 #6

I'm not trying to be weird Aerows Jul 2014 #7

I understand. In link that I was showing you Melissa G Jul 2014 #8

I ordered a hanging bar Aerows Jul 2014 #11

Hanging like that really stretches your shoulder and opens it up mythology Jul 2014 #9

I ordered one of these Aerows Jul 2014 #10

That looked good! I just ordered one Melissa G Jul 2014 #13

The instructions for putting it together suck Aerows Aug 2014 #14

Thanks! I'm having my husband try this out. Bad shoulder pain for months now and nothing else helps. flibbitygiblets Apr 2018 #17

Not weird. Could be a condition called frozen shoulder. AngryOldDem Aug 2014 #15

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