best treatment for trapped nerve in shoulder?
Friday, July 2nd, 2010 at
2:49 am
I’ve had trapped nerve in my shoulder for a week and the pain is excruciating.
What are my best optios for curing this problem?
Filed under: Shoulder Pain Treatment
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Well… first off – nobody has "trapped nerve". If anything was actually laying on a nerve, the nerve would die – you wouldn’t feel anything – and you would lose your nerves to some part of your body. There’s lots of beliefs like this which just aren’t true – "pinched nerve" is another one which doesn’t really happen.
I bet what you have is a cramp in a muscle – there’s about a zillion muscles running every whichway in the shoulder. Trouble – injury – psychology – can cause these to cramp up.
One idea is to track down a chiropractor – those guys can save your bacon. And the treatment is cheap and sort of fun. These guys re-establish normal movement of the joints. I bet a chiropractor would find one of your vertebral joints isn’t moving freely.
Another thing to do is get a friend to do a little massage on it. Get a big empty coke bottle and fill it with HOT water – and get some ice. First you search around and find the exact spot which hurts – then you put the hot coke bottle on the spot until it’s nice and warm then give it a good deep massage for 5 minutes. Then put ice on it until it’s as cold as possible – only takes a minute – and then give it a deep massage again. Keep trading back and forth – hot and cold.
After a few times, stretch out your muscles and relax. The cramped muscle will give up after a bit and relax.
I’ve got a trapped nerve in my shoulder too, you’re right about the pain.
Loosening exercises help. Bend forward with your arm and shoulder muscles relaxed so your arm is just hanging towards the floor with your torso as horizontal as you can make it (prop yourself against the wall with your other arm) and them just gently swing your arm backwards and forwards – not forcing anything, just gentle swinging. Then do it side-to-side as well. As the days go by slowly increase the arc of the swing.
These are the exercises my physiotherapist is having me do and he pulls it and does other stuff between times.
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The pain in your shoulder could be coming from the neck.
Less commonly it could be coming from the Liver or Gallbladder.
You may not have a trapped nerve at all.
I suggest you see an Osteopath, Physio or Chiropractor.
Each of these should be suitably skilled to assess you, treat you and give you self management exercises.
you could try massage therapy. where i’m from we call it a "pinched" nerve and these option works.