Neck and shoulder pain radiating down arm

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What causes severe pain to radiate from neck down to shoulder and arm and prevent a person from raising his or her arm above their shoulder, except if they are lying down with back against the mattress?

The pain starts like hot burning sensation in the shoulder, and when it radiates down my arm, it feels like the worst muscle contraction that one could imagine. Then it to travels up and down between my shoulder and elbow. My husband says it could be a pinched nerve. He says that I started complaining the day I did side plank and lifted my right arm straight up and gazing to the hand. Could that have done it? For now, I want relief from this pain and be free to enjoy my active life style.

10 minutes later now, the muscle around my shoulder is on fire and the pain is now radiating down my upper arm. I have an ice pack on my upper neck and it is helping but I can barely type this right now as my arm hardly wants to move. my shoulder wont hold it. This is awful! It was not a traumatic injury, more of an awkward strain pull thing... what do I do?!

I had similar symptoms a few years ago but I was diagnosed with a frozen shoulder. It was very painful and I had the pain in the neck, shoulder, and tingling down my arm. It took me 1-1/2 years for it to eventually go away. Nothing helped but physical therapy. I had 5 cortisone shots and took tons of pills but they never helped. Just time and constant PT. Hope this helps.

Two yrs ago I started experiencing right side neck/shoulder/arm pain that radiates to my upper chest,into my armpit and under my scapula in the upper back.It is sporadic pain and varies in intensity.Most of the time when it flares up,which can be evey day for a month or only once a month,it is unbearable.It is a severe pinching,sqeezing,burning pain with a lot of pressure.It radiates down my arm into my hand.The worst part of it is the pain under my scapula and upper chest.

Please define me what is this and which Dr should i preffer neuro or ortho first i had a stiffness in my neck and then the pain is radiating to my right arm now its almost 1 month now. severe neck and shoulder pain.When I am looking down my right arm nerves are like bubbling up i can feel outside also this. my shoulder is the most painful are its like cuttingdown. Can u tell me the reason for this and suggest a treatment for this.thanks.

I have severe pain starting at my left shoulder running up my neck and down my left arm took all kind of medication to easy the pain but pain will not go away has ben like this for the oast 3 1/2 weeks what do you suggest to do this pain real hurts bad

I suffer chronic pain, numbness, stinging, tingling from neck radiating down left shoulder to fnger tips DAILY....... The Worst part of it all, Noone believes me. pain meds make me sleepy, however i will not sleep through a painful position. Sometimes i think i was better off before the surgery :(. Last xray shows extreme narrowing of the nerve canals left side only. Could this cause the pain to continue?

After all this time I get pain in my neck and left shoulder, to numbness all the way down my left arm and fingers. Just in the last few weeks to a month I have been getting numbness in my right arm and fingers though no real pain in my right shoulder. I am also having weekness in my shoulders, like I can not keep my arms up to long to do anything before I have to put them down again. I have done physical therapy, steroids in my muscle neither helped nor worked.

I feel like I'm getting the run around. The neck pain I have lived with for years but the shoulder and gripping pain in my upper arm is really ugly. My shoulder hurts when I move it but the gripping pain around my upper arm (about half way between shoulder and elbow) feels live a red hot band squeezing my arm. It causes me to double over in pain and I have very little use of my left arm on most days. The hydrocodone does little to ease the pain.

Hi, The cause of neck pain radiating down the arms is often cervical spinal stenosis or a herniated disc. Spinal stenosis is known as the narrowing of the area of the spine where the nerves leave the spine and travel to the rest of the body. This narrowing may result from: herniated disc, thickened ligaments, thickened bony structures, bone spurs, trauma, arthritis or tumours.

pain from R) shoulder blade up throgh R0 side neck.shoulder radiaates down arm dedltoid muscle, elbow, muscles ,wrist, and thumb. Previous busrsitis in R) shoulder. Worse Nocte. 'twinging/shooting pain', ache in day. Query occupational related pushhing heavy medication trolleys and punching ougt medications from webster. could it be neurological referred pain?

Several days ago I noticed aching in my neck while sitting at my desk at work and now 2 days later I'm having constant aching , burning , numbing, sensations on the left side of my neck, radiating down my shoulder, arm and hand > I'm afraid I may have developed another bad disc .(I've already had two cevical disc surgery's in 2004) and the symtoms seems to be the same .

Over the next couple of months things have got really bad, with pain radiating down left arm, feeling rock hard as if muscles in spasm. Its got to the point where I have limited movement, I can't fasten my bra strap, I can't raise my arm too high up. I took myself to an osteopath who manipulated me and did a little massage but after 6 sessions at £35 I didn't really notice a difference so popped to gp who referred me for a scan.

I’ve been going to Physical therapy for the past four months, for the shoulder, arm, back and neck pain. I just don’t know what to do, I've pain in the left shoulder and the left shoulder blade. The pain starts usually when I'm holding my hand up high, when I'm typing or on the phone, also when I'm driving. It starts from the neck and down my arm. The pain is unpredictable; it appears when I'm moving from one side to another.

I sometimes experience shoulder pain, pain radiating to my left breast and tingling pain in my thumb. I don't know if taking vitamin B12 and using ice and cold patches will be good for you but they certainly help me. Maybe you can ask your doctor before trying. I hope and pray for your fast recovery.

I was told by my physical therapist that the shoulder is causing pain to radiate down below the deltoid because the bicep connect there and when the shoulder most it contracts causing pain. Trigger points can referr pain into the forearm as well. Both my doctors state I have a frozen shoulder. Your problem may be cause from the shoulder if no problems is in your neck. From what I understand Carpel tunnel can cause pain up the arm as well.

Although this has not got any worse it is not going away. I get pain in my back, shoulder, arm, neck and side. I currenlty have deep tissue massages for quite large knots in my back, neck and shoulder. I have since had another baby and I still get the same pain. I never breastfeed my son (I tried once) and I leaked from both breasts.

THE MED HELP, BUT WHEN I DO PHYSICAL WORK USEING MY armS, I'M DONE FOR ABOUT A WEEK FLAT ON BY BACK WITH arm pain. THE pain WILL START IN MY neck, SHOLDERS OR armPITS and WORK TO MY armS. AS LONG AS I DO NO PHYSICAL WORK and TAKE MY MEDS I SEEM TO BE OK,BUT WHEN I USE MY armS I'M DONE. TKS. HOPE YOU CAN HELP.

The symptoms include pain at the level of the problem (i.e. neck or back etc) and pain that may radiate down the arm or leg (depending on where the problem is). In more advanced cases, muscle weakness or sensory symptoms such as tingling or numbness may occur. A radiculopathy is often diagnosed based on history, physical examination, and MRI of the spine. Treatment is usually conservative, with anti-inflammatories and physical therapy. Only rarely is surgery required.

My name is LISA and I am a 40-year-old woman with pain concentrated in my left shoulder and radiating to my upper arm and armpit area. I also have numbness and tingling traveling down my left arm to my little finger. This pain and numbness intensifies on movement of the shoulder such as lifting my arm across my body, sitting, sleeping and moving It also is very uncomfortable to sleep at night. I can not lie on my left side as it causes increased pain and numbness to the arm.

I also suffer from pins and needles feeling in the back of my neck and a pain which comes on occasionally in my neck and radiates down my shoulder into my arm usually the right hand side. Does this sound like MS symptoms as my nan suffered with it. Is it hereditory or not?

C5-6 in 1995 went three years until the pain was too much to bear, (Meds had ceased to kill the pain). Have always had some pain down left arm since fusion in 1998. In 2004 developed burning pain down left side of chest cavity, arm and shoulder, bloating, Ortho kept telling me just post pain, no need for MRI, finally my GP decided that he beleived me over the Ortho, had the MRI Nov 05 C3-4 pushing in on canal C6-7 pushing in on canal, Radiologist, no spinal stenois "he says".

ever since seeing the doctor the pain has stretched to my neck/back of my head. so my pain radiates from behind my ear, to the back of my head down my neck and has started on my left side now too. sometimes i feel some tensions in my shoulder blades. the pain is not too bad in the morning. I more or less just feel strain and no pain. As the day proceeds, my pain gets worse and its the worst at night time. I hate going to bed because my pain is at high level.

i have very bad neck and shoulder wit alot ofpain in bicept with some numbness going down the arm any idea

I had an MRI done and it showed two bulging discs on my C5/ C6 area, a tear in my tendon, along with impingement on the nerve. The pain radiated down my left side of my neck, into the shoulder and down the left arm to my fingers. It was the most excruciating pain ever! I thought I was having a heart attack because it was all on my left side and the pain was absolutely unbearable. During the day, it was so bad, except for lifting my arm. i couldn't... Too much pain.

I didn't think much of it at first however it has persisted for a while now. The pains in my shoulder down my arm are a lot stronger compared to my shoulder blade and chest where it is more of an ache. It a sharper radiating pain that goes down my arm.

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