Your Symptom: Shoulder Pain

How Fiveways Physiotherapy can help you:

When you see a Fiveways Physiotherapy physiotherapist the first priority will be to identify the cause of your shoulder pain.

Shoulder pain may not occur in isolation and it may not be possible to effectively relieve your pain until the source of the problem (which may be an injury to your shoulder or may be related to an issue with your spine or the muscle balance around your shoulder), is identified.

• Discuss with your shoulder pain with you
  Your therapist will discuss the occurrence of your pain and the incidence of the pain- with an injury or over time with a slowly increasing discomfort or pain.
  
  Your shoulder pain may be local or it is may be referred or there may be a  combination of causes. A number of questions will help to guide your therapist to determining cause. Then, the therapist will:
  

• Examine your shoulder
  Your Fiveways Physiotherapy physiotherapist will do a local examination of your shoulder by testing
  
• Neck and back range of movement
• Your muscle strength
• Active and passive movement at your shoulder and other joints
• Posture/muscle balance
  

• Advise you where additional tests may be necessary
  Further tests may be needed to identify if anything else is contributing to your shoulder pain and possible postural involvement

• Treat the injury
  Based on the diagnosis and how severe your pain is, your Fiveways Physiotherapy Physiotherapist will suggest a treatment plan and , with your permission, start treatment
  

• Mobilisation
• Electrotherapy
  
• Ultrasound, to reduce some of the ache resulting from increased activity
• Bracing and/or taping
  
• Targeted exercise program
• Lifestyle modificaton
• Posture adjustment
  

• Advise you on how to prevent a recurrence

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