Symptoms & Causes of Pain in Upper Extremities

Shoulder Pain

The shoulder is a highly mobile joint and is made up of various skeletal and muscular structures. Small injuries or misalignments can lead to numerous problems and pain in the shoulder. Shoulder pain can also start because of injury from car accidents, sports injuries, or even sleeping on your side or lifting something heavy.

The most common issue we see is Frozen Shoulder syndrome. Frozen Shoulder Syndrome is most commonly caused by an old injury healing improperly with scar tissue and adhesions resulting in a loss of mobility of the shoulder.

What Can You Do?

Strengthening exercises may help relieve underlying issues with shoulder pain. Doing exercises that work on strength and stability of the shoulder will be beneficial to your overall health. For home exercises to help alleviate stress, tension, or increase flexibility, check out our instructional videos.

What Can A Chiropractor Do?

Our clinic doctors can treat Frozen Shoulder by mobilizing the shoulder joint while at the same time performing soft tissue release techniques. In addition, other therapies such as ultrasound and electric muscle stimulation can be used. From our experience, we have found that Frozen Shoulder Syndrome responds the best to manual therapy first.

If the shoulder pain is due to inflammation from a strained or sprained rotator cuff or bursa or due to overuse, we can mobilize or adjust the joint to help reduce inflammation and help the healing process.

Chiropractic doctors can also simultaneously treat this area with therapies such as massage, ultrasound, and electric muscle stimulation which help with inflammation and pain management.

These are just a few examples of what might be causing your pain. To get a full understanding of what is causing your pain, schedule a visit with our doctors today.

The reason for our success is similar to the philosophy on treating the spine. We look to the cause of the condition and rather than treating the symptom.

Elbow Pain

Most often elbow pain is due to either some kind of impact trauma or overuse. The most common issue we see in office is Tennis Elbow or Medial Epicondylitis. Tennis Elbow is caused by overuse of the muscles and tendons in the forearm. This overuse can cause swelling and inflammation, resulting in pain, discomfort, or loss in mobility.

What Can You Do?

If you injure your elbow due to some type of trauma like a slip and fall or car accident, we suggest coming in to have one of our Doctors assess your injury and discuss with you the best options for recovery. If your injury is due to overuse

What Can A Chiropractor Do?

Chiropractic doctors are trained to assess muscle and joint dysfunction. Our Doctors can detect elbow joint misalignments and take corrective actions to help restore normal motion and function to the joint, muscles, and nerves in the injured and surrounding areas.

Chiropractic doctors can also simultaneously treat this area with therapies such as massage, ultrasound, and electric muscle stimulation which help with inflammation and pain management.

These are just a few examples of what might be causing your pain. To get a full understanding of what is causing your pain, schedule a visit with our doctors today.

Wrist/Hand Pain

The most common reason of hand or wrist pain is trauma. You hit it, bump into something, or slip and fall on your hand and it can become injured. There are 8 small bones in your wrist and 19 bones in the hand. That means there are a lot of structures and joints that can become injured and cause pain. Around all those bones are also numerous small muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves as well which can all become injured causing pain.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is another reason many people experience hand and wrist pain. Carpal tunnel syndrome can cause tingling, numbness, weakness, or pain in the fingers or hand.People who do small, repetitive motions with their hands such as typing on a keyboard or cutting hair or other normal activities can develop Carpal Tunnel problems due to inflammation in the wrist and the trapping of the median nerve. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is one of the most overlooked conditions that Chiropractic doctors can treat. We urge anyone suffering from wrist and hand pain to consult with one of our Doctors before visiting a surgeon.

What Can You Do?

Hand and wrist exercises may help relieve the pain associated with wrist and hand pain.

If possible, take more small breaks or switch hands if you spend a large amount of time typing at a computer, use tools frequently, style hair or do any other repetitive things.

What Can A Chiropractor Do?

Our Doctors can show you corrective stretches and exercises you can do to help relieve the pressure and pain caused by repetitive actions.

Chiropractic doctors are trained to assess muscle and joint dysfunction. Our Doctors can detect wrist and hand misalignments and take corrective actions to help restore normal motion and function to the joint, muscles, and nerves in the injured and surrounding areas.

Chiropractic doctors can also simultaneously treat this area with therapies such as massage, ultrasound, and electric muscle stimulation which help with inflammation and pain management.