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• Referral from January 3, 2015
  

  Kathy B. asked:

  ok all you old nurses on here, help me out! Or anyone for that matter. I have severe pain in my deltoid muscle in my left arm. Feels like a never ending cramp, worse at night orwhenever I move my arm excessively. Pain raidiates to my left shoulder and vice versa. Have tried tumeric, extra strength tylenol, advil, you name it in various combinations. Have put deep heat on it, iced it, heated it and nothing. Went to the clinic and all the nurse practitioner wnted to do was either stick a dry needle in it (acupuncture) or shoot it with lidocaine. NOT going to happen! Would it have anything to do with a torn rotator cuff or shoulder injury. On a pain scale of 1-10, it most generally is a 5 radiating to a 9, especially at night. Help!

  

  Donna F. replied:

  How high can you raise it? I had "frozen shoulder" which meant startling pain in shoulder and all the way down the arm to the elbow. Ow. Ice, exercises and gentle stretches and ultimately it went away -- only now the OTHER shoulder is frozen. Sigh. But this one is "thawing" slowly, thank goodness. This link is very helpful: http://www.mckinley.illinois.edu/.../shoulder... Don't feel like a wimp about this: A woman I know said her very stoic and strong father had frozen shoulder and the PT his insurance paid for had him in tears at times. I won't say that I cried doing those exercises, but I will say they weren't comfortable at first. Hope you feel better soon.

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