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It can also occur from a traction injury to the arm, such as lifting a heavy object off the ground or getting your arm jerked. Injury to the labrum typically occurs from repetitive trauma in overhead throwers, such as in baseball. The labrum supports and stabilizes the shoulder joint. The labrum is a cartilaginous cup that circles the shallow shoulder socket (the glenoid) to make the socket deeper. Important to understand as well, there is extensive amount of research also showing many of these pathologies exist in perfectly normal shoulders with ZERO shoulder pain! This is why it is critical to have extensive history information and a physical examination along with imaging findings to understand what the source of the pain is!

Biceps tendon runs in the front of the shoulder and can also create pain with lifting shoulder.

Can be an association with crepitus, popping or clicking of the shoulder.

Location of pain can also vary from back, front and top of the shoulder.

Labral injuries all can present similar to other injuries such as rotator cuff tears and biceps injuries.

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Both active and passive (meaning with patient not using their muscle and the physician moving the shoulder) not able to get full range of motion.Frozen shoulder can cause pain while trying to lift your arm BUT the movement of the arm is extremely limited and unable to go through all the normal range of motion.Also associate with pain while laying on the shoulder and night pain.Pain from rotator cuff tendons typically located outside of the shoulder around the deltoid area but can also present with front of the shoulder pain.There are multiple terminologies that typically all mean the same thing such as tendonitis, tendinosis and bursitis – all typically describe pain and damage coming from the rotator cuff areas.Rotator cuff is a collection of 4 main muscles and tendons that envelope the shoulder joint and they can get damaged causing pain with lifting the shoulder.

AC joint pain can be more on the top of the shoulder where glenohumeral joint can be more in the front or back of the shoulder.

Both can cause pain with raising your arm but there is typically an association with a “grinding” or crepitus (bone crutching) sensation that accompanies the pain with movement.

Arthritis can be in either the main glenohumeral joint or the AC joint.

Shoulder arthritis is common as we age and with any history of trauma or previously surgery can increase the risk for developing arthritis.

Location of pain typically on the outer area of the shoulder around where the deltoid muscles are.

Now, if have impingement, we still need to understand the underlying mechanism such as shoulder instability of the capsular ligaments that allow the shoulder to move improperly to impinge.

While pain when active movement, there should be no pain while at rest of in any other direction.

Shoulder impingement occurs when the top outer edge of your shoulder blade, called the acromion, rubs against (“impinges on”) or pinches your rotator cuff beneath it, causing pain and irritation.

Many conditions can present with these symptoms. With pain when lifting your shoulder, it is critical to take a detailed history, good examination, coupled with imaging to fully understand what is causing the shoulder pain. Most shoulder examination maneuvers are very limited in their ability to assess exactly what the problem is. Shoulder pain can be very non-specific, meaning that multiple structures and issues can cause identical pain in the shoulder. Possible Conditions That May Cause The Shoulder Pain

Pain described as multiple different sensations such as: Shoulder pain when moving the arm can come in various forms and associated symptoms such as: Symptoms Of Shoulder Pain When Moving The Arms Then you have all the other muscles such as the pectoralis, biceps, deltoid, serratus, latissimus, rhomboids, levator scapula and more that attach to various aspects of the shoulder to allow multiple degrees of motion. The rotator cuff muscles envelop the humeral head (ball part of the ball and socket joint) to allow motion and stability. The AC joint is held together by a network of ligaments and your GH joint is much more complex: it has a capsule that holds the bones together keeping the ball and socket together, a labrum that cushions between the ball and socket.

Glenohumeral joint (GH joint)– which is where your arm bone (humerus) meets the shoulder bone (scapula), this is the main ball and socket joint of the shoulder.

Acromioclavicular joint (AC Joint) – which is where the clavicle meets the shoulder bone (scapula).

What most patients consider their “shoulder” is actually 2 different joints: