Shoulder Tendonitis Surgery
First let’s find out what shoulder tendonitis or rotator cuff tendonitis is? There are several other names that this can be called. Some are known as tennis shoulder, pitcher’s shoulder and even a shoulder impingement. These are all common names for a very similar problem.
So what is it? Shoulder tendonitis or rotator cuff tendonitis is the inflammation and can be an irritation and swelling of the tendons of the shoulder. The shoulder joint is a ball and socket type joint. The top part of the arm bone (humerus) forms a joint with the shoulder blade (scapula). The rotator cuff holds the head of the humerus into the scapula.
What is the most common cause of rotator cuff tendonitis?
A lot of the time the problem occurs with sports. Inflammation of the tendons of the shoulder muscles occur in sports using the arm being moved over the head repeatedly. Such sports are tennis, baseball (pitching mainly) swimming and even lifting weights over the head. What happens sometimes is you get the inflammation or injury and can cause the tendons of the rotator cuff to tear. Sometimes this occurs in people over 40 years of age.
If you are looking for shoulder tendonitis treatment options, then keep reading. This article is for you. Shoulder tendonitis is a painful condition usually associated with a rotator cuff injury. In this article will demonstrate a few of the steps necessary to to treat tendonitis in the shoulder and then show you how you can learn how heal the pain and keep it from coming back.
There are two areas where shoulder tendonitis can develop. One is up in the rotator cuff surrounding the shoulder joint. If you think you may have tendonitis, be sure to stop whatever you are doing that is aggravating the injury and consult with a doctor. Only a doctor can tell you if it is tendonitis or something more severe such as a torn muscle.
If it does turn out to be tedonitis of the rotator cuff, then there are a number of shoulder tendonitis treatment options that may help you.
Treatment Option #1: RICE
The first treatment option is the RICE method. Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. This is a common first aid technique but is especially useful for rotator cuff injuries. Rest an immobilize your shoulder with the aid of a sling. Apply ice to calm the irritation and slow the swelling. Compression and elevation also help to reduce the blood flow and thus relieve pain.
Treatment Option #2: Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Tendonitis, quite simply is the medical description of an inflamed tendon. Thus, anti-inflammatory drugs can offer quick relief. Over-the-counter drugs such as Advil often provide temporary relief. They reduce the pain and the inflammation in the affected area. In more severe cases, your doctor may recommend a Cortisone injection directly into the inflamed area. Cortisone is a powerful anti-inflammatory medication but like with other drugs, its affects are only temporary.
Treatment Option #3: Surgery
In extreme cases, your doctor may recommend surgery. There are a number of different surgical approaches to treating rotator cuff injuries. Unless you have severely torn a muscle or tendon, this is usually not required.
Shoulder Tendonitis Symptoms
Pain when the arm is moved Arm is weak when rising over your head Pain in shoulder at night, especially when lying on the affected shoulder. Pain in arm when performing overhead activities
How to find out if you have shoulder tendonitis
X-ray’s or MRI. X-rays can show a burn spur. The MRI can show the inflammation in the rotator cuff. There could also be a tear in the rotator cuff and the MRI will show this.
Shoulder Tendonitis Surgery
Before shoulder tendonitis surgery, you should try physical therapy to strengthen the muscles of the rotator cuff. If the pain is too great to start physical therapy a steroid injection (cortisone) may reduce pain and inflammation enough to start effective therapy.
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