boyfriend has shoulder / arm / hand pain? treatments?
my boyfriend is stubborn — really stubborn — about going to the doctor.. mostly it’s a money issue, but sometimes he should really go and he doesn’t..
now is one of those times..
he has NO idea how he got this pain, but it’s worst at the shoulder — from what he’s told me, it’s in the joint more than anywhere else –, it goes in a line down his arm, and goes out to his pinky finger..
he says that he can feel the pain "radiating" out to his other fingers.. maybe he’s referring to a pulsating feeling?
it’s gotten to the point where the effected shoulder sits higher [like he's tensing his muscles] on his body.. i looked at a couple of the suggestions [from when i posted the question], and they said that "frozen shoulder" may be the case.. the only problem with that is the person said that it typically effects people over forty, and my boyfriend is 20 years old..
i had a friend who showed me how to give a proper massage, but since it’s in a joint, it didn’t work too well..
is there anything that i can try to do, or he can try to do, that would make the pain lessen or stop? or does he have to suck it up and save some money to go to the doctor?
[[i also have leftover diclofenac from when i had some inflammatory problems, but he refuses to take them.. could they help?]]
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Pains that occur along the top of the shoulder, and radiate into the side of the upper arm into the deltoid muscle, and further down the arm, even into the fingers, may be related to nerve impingement (pinched nerve), which can originate in the neck (cervical spine). Depending on the side of the hand, or the fingers affected will determine the nerve branch involved. This condition called “Brachial Neuritis”, or “Brachial Neuralgia”, is due to the involvement of the group of nerves exiting from the spinal vertebrae, called the “Brachial Plexus”. The pain can be very intense on any movement of the arm and any pressure along the distribution of the nerve pathway.
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I recommend going to the website below to read further. You can also google "shoulder pain radiating down arm to fingers"
December 7th, 2009 at 8:08 amgive him a massage on his shoulder and
December 7th, 2009 at 8:08 amthen change it to whole body
and then
sleep with him
it will definitely make him feel better