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What Is Shoulder Tendonitis?
The term tendonitis refers to inflammation of tendons. Shoulder tendonitis is inflammation of tendons due to entrapment of tendons between bones. The main tendons involved in shoulder tendonitis are rotator cuff and biceps. This condition occurs due to repeated overhead movement of arms during sports such as basketball, racket sports, swimming, and weightlifting during exercise.
What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Shoulder Tendonitis?
The symptoms associated with shoulder tendonitis vary with the severity of inflammation. In mild cases, you may not feel pain at rest, but overhead movement of arms can cause pain. Severe inflammation affects the range of motion and causes severe pain when you move your arms. However, the signs of symptoms of shoulder tendonitis include the following:
- Pain in the tip of the shoulder that radiates to the arm
- Pain and stiffness in the shoulder joint
- Reduced mobility of shoulder joint
- Sharp pain in the shoulder joint on the overhead movement of the arm
- Clicking sound on movement
- Mild swelling in the shoulder joint
- Inability to hold the arm in a certain position
What Are the Causes of Shoulder Tendonitis?
Shoulder tendonitis occurs due to multiple causes. A few of them are:
1- Overuse of Muscles:
Repeated overhead movement of arms during sports and weight lifting can cause degeneration or rotator cuff, a risk factor for shoulder tendonitis.
2- Strenuous Training:
Heavy weight lifting, hard throws or swimming strokes can pull your tendons, leading to inflammation of tendons.
3-Improper Technique:
Improper postures during exercise or swimming can put pressure on the rotator cuff and biceps, resulting in shoulder tendonitis.
4- Sports Injuries:
You are more prone to shoulder tendonitis if you’re an athlete or sportsperson. Sports that cause shoulder tendonitis are golf, tennis and racket sports, volleyball, swimming, and baseball.
5- Other Causes:
If you do a job that needs overhead motion work, such as passing weight to someone standing at a higher position than you, overhead pressing machines, and assembling work, you can get shoulder tendonitis. Falling on an outstretched hand can also be one of the reasons for shoulder tendonitis.
What are the Risk Factors for Shoulder Tendonitis?
Ageing is one of the major risk factors for shoulder tendonitis. With age, your joints and tendons become less flexible, increasing the risk of entrapment of tendons between bony structures. Other risk factors include the following:
- Health conditions like joint inflammation or arthritis
- A working environment that requires repetitive movements
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Improper posture when performing work or exercise
What Are the Stages of Shoulder Tendonitis?
Shoulder tendonitis is categorised into three stages depending on the severity of the condition. These conditions are as follows:
1- Overuse Tendonitis
It occurs due to repetitive shoulder motions that put pressure on the rotator cuff. This stage is characterised by bruising, irritation, mild pain, and weakness of the shoulder joint.
2-Calcific Tendonitis:
When inflammation of tendons persists for a longer time, calcium starts to deposit within the tendons, leading to calcific tendonitis. Calcific tendonitis results in loss of muscle strength and decreased range of motion.
3-Impingement Tendonitis:
When the rotator cuff becomes weak, and the bursa becomes swollen, the rotator cuff gets “pinched” by the humerus. This leads to impingement tendonitis.
4-Rotator Cuff Tear:
This is a severe form of tendonitis that results from muscle degeneration, falling on an outstretched hand, and long-term impingement of rotator cuff tendons. This is characterised by partial or complete tearing of rotator cuff tendons associated with severe pain.
How Is Shoulder Tendonitis Treated?
Advanced Treatment: ANF Therapy®️
1-History:
ANF Therapists will take your history first. They will inquire about your presenting complaints, recent injuries, aggravating and relieving factors, acute or chronic exacerbation in pain, and how much this problem has affected your routine activities.
2-Physical Examination:
After a detailed history, they will perform a detailed physical examination. They will assess the severity of inflammation, extent of swelling, severity and nature of pain, and range of motion. They will palpate all biceps and rotator cuff tendons to assess the stage of shoulder tendonitis.
3-Neurological Examination:
Neurological examination is the most important step. ANF Therapists will perform a neurological examination to palpate inflamed nerves. This step will help them locate areas for the application of devices.
4-Application of Devices:
After a detailed history and examination, ANF Therapists will apply ANF Devices to certain areas of your body. For shoulder tendonitis, they will apply pain and anti-inflammatory devices, such as ACA (antioxidant carnosine) and AGA (antioxidant glutathione) devices, to heal the problem from its root cause.
5-Expected Outcome:
6-Follow up:
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Frequently Asked Questions:
How do you fix tendonitis in the shoulder?
What does shoulder tendonitis feel like?
Shoulder tendonitis presents with pain at the tip of the shoulder that radiates towards the arm. It commonly occurs when you lift your arm overhead and try to twist the arm. Shoulder tendonitis affects range of motion, and you can not hold your arm in certain positions.
How long does it take to heal shoulder tendonitis?
What are the four symptoms of tendonitis?
Pain in the tip of the shoulder, restricted shoulder movement, clicking sound, and stiffness of the shoulder joint are four major symptoms of tendonitis.
Can shoulder tendonitis be permanent?
What causes tendonitis without injury?
Repetitive overhead movement of the shoulder joint, improper posture during weight lifting, sports, and certain jobs that require overhead weight lifting can cause shoulder tendonitis.
What is the Best Treatment for Shoulder Tendonitis?
About ANF Therapy®️
ANF Therapy®️ uses circular ANF Devices, which are applied directly on the skin after palpation and assessment by a trained ANF Therapist following the ANF Therapy®️ Method, Patented Model no. U202030252, ES1259974.
The ANF Therapy®️ purpose is the alleviation of injury and pain within minutes.
Our aim is that the patient experiences a reduction of pain and swelling, an increase in range of motion, and an improvement in quality of life related to health. Non-transdermal, non-invasive device, NO needles or chemicals are used.
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