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Cracking And Popping Shoulder When Moving. Painful. Muscle Strain?
I have always had a shoulder problem everytime I rotate my shoulder it would crack and pop. Anyways on sunday I lobbed a softball to my wife and heard a pop in my shoulder and my arm/shoulder feels dead I can t make a throwing motion with out it hurting it feels heavy and dead and the pain feels like when someone is grabbing a pressure point I cant afford to go get an MRI what do u think I did muscle strain tore something any ideas and also when I rotate my shoulder my shoulder don t make the cracking piping sound anymore very strange
Wed, 25 Jun 2014
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Joint Replacement, Dr. Saurabh Gupta's Response
Hello, Thanks for your query. The fact that your pain is occuring with movements indicates a muscle strain. Any strained muscle when stretched gives severe pain.
I advice you to follow the below mentioned guidelines -
* Give adequate rest to the involved muscle group and avoid any movement that causes pain * Ice packing once in every 2 hours over the affected area * Moist heat application to relax the muscles * Local application of muscle relaxant gel * Analgesic medications as needed
I do hope that you have found something helpful and I will be glad to answer any further query. Take care
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Cracking And Popping Shoulder When Moving. Painful. Muscle Strain?
Hello, Thanks for your query. The fact that your pain is occuring with movements indicates a muscle strain. Any strained muscle when stretched gives severe pain. I advice you to follow the below mentioned guidelines - * Give adequate rest to the involved muscle group and avoid any movement that causes pain * Ice packing once in every 2 hours over the affected area * Moist heat application to relax the muscles * Local application of muscle relaxant gel * Analgesic medications as needed I do hope that you have found something helpful and I will be glad to answer any further query. Take care