Causes Of Shoulder Pain

Of all the joints in the body, the shoulder probably offers the greatest range of movement yet it is a relatively unstable joint because the ball of the humerus bone doesn’t fit into the shoulder joint completely. Any injury, swelling, tear or entrapment of tendons can cause pain in the shoulder. Some common conditions causing pain in the shoulder include:

• Rotator cuff tears.
• Frozen shoulder.
• Dislocation of the joint.
• Tendinitis (inflammation of a tendon).
• Arthritis of the shoulder.
• Ruptured tendon.

A shoulder pain may also be a referred pain, meaning that the cause of pain occurs at a site other than the shoulder.