Shoulder Pain - Ice or Heat? (which is better for pain relief?)

This is a natural body response called Inflammation ( with "itis" at the end of the word. With the thefour cardinal signs of inflammation I use cold pack for as long as inflammation persist. Prolong cold application can produce vasodilation by Shuntting effect on our blood vessels...

hurting pain shoulder blade

What about a.c. joint pain with a knot?

Wet useful info. Thanks 🙏

Would I do the same for ongoing hip bursitis?

Thanks a lot .You have been à tremendous help for me by your very explicite explications.

Totally Anecdotal but Heat is the only thing that’s helping treat my rotator cuff injury. Icing does nothing

Would icy hot work OK for heat?

I have a pain in my left shoulder and arm and after ultrasound and x-ray the doctor diagnosed the pain to a small partial-thickness tear involving the distal left supraspinatus tendon. What to use for this ... hot or cold ?

What about ice first for 20 minutes and then heat for 20 minutes right after? I have severe tendinosis and a bone spur and extreme frozen shoulder. Also a bankart lesion and biceps tendon tear. What would you reccomend?

Suffered a Grade 3 tear ac joint separation, and this is my 1st week in. Will the sauna be good for the ligament repair?

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Thank you! What about if you have bursitis (inflamation) and the tendinosis?

Hi Doc..plz confirm what would be good for treatment of frozen shoulder
Ice pack or heat pack?

I am a tennis player I am having shoulder pain since half a month I have tried everything like ice, physiotherapy,etc but nothing is working pls help me

What about a tear on supraespinoso? I need surgery but I am avoiding it

Luke Ive been sleeping with my left arm straight out with my head laying on my shoulder and now when I move my arm a certain way, I get a terrible 'burning' pain in my upper arm muscle. What would this be and how can I get relief. Also I am now having pain under my back shoulder blade. Is there an exercise to help with the shoulder blade pain as well? Thanks so much

Thanks man

Anyone know if I should take cold or hot showers at night?? I have a bad shoulder and chest pain. Pain comes more at night. Thank you so mych

Hi Doc, i sprained my shoulder muscle 8-10 days ago while bench pressing and I've been icing it from last 4-5 days. Normally i don't have pain in there but the anterior shoulder muscle flares up while bench pressing. So shall i keep icing it or i should heat it now.
And one more question Doc. Can i keep working out with that little amount of pain or i should rest my shoulder for some days.
Revert would be much helpful and appreciated.
Thanks

Hi Doc, i sprained my shoulder muscle 8-10 days ago while bench pressing and I've been icing it from last 4-5 days. Normally i don't have pain in there but the anterior shoulder muscle flares up while bench pressing. So shall i keep icing it or i should heat it now.
And one more question Doc. Can i keep working out with that little amount of pain or i should rest my shoulder for some days.
Revert would be much helpful and appreciated.
Thanks

Hi Luke! I am 9 weeks out from labrum and rotator cuff (supraspinatus) surgery and am having a lot of discomfort after PT trying to get my ROM back.. would ice or heat work best at this stage? Or maybe a combo of both? Appreciate your videos!

Thanks for the useful video mate.
I have dual shoulder tendonosis that flared up severely after a hard gym session two months ago when taking high dose Prednisolone (masked all my pain - unintentional as using for other reason).
Since then I had a Cortisone injection one side and have iced it several times.
Ice doesn't resolve it. Heat definitely helps but I am worried it masks the injury and when training I can falsely think my shoulder is okay. Only when cooling down do I then suffer the consequences!! Maybe heat ... with caution.

Thanks again to the info

Thanks a million Doctor. I will definitely try both for my right shoulder pain that has been going on for a couple of years now.

The pain I'm experiencing is from my nape, to my shoulder and right arm. It's been a week already and I don't want to endure it for a long time. Thank you for the information I got from you. Hopefully, it will remove my shoulder pain.

Great video, thank you.

Thanks for the great advise.. Owing to the Covid Omicron wave, I cancelled my physio appointments, and now my shoulder pain is flaring up. I am starting to find out that heat really helps but so can ice. So I guess its heat to heal and iced to drop the inflammation from over use.

You take too long and keep repeating. Just get to the point.

Hey Doc thanks for the video
I woke up one day and i have shoulder pain it just flare up with certain movements.
My doc said that it is inflammation he did MRI they gave me steroids twice total 16 injections.
But pain got back again i tired everything.

Can you please advise me
Ps. I workout but I stopped since i had pain 6 months ago.

Good clear tips. My shoulder issue has been going on for over 1 month now. I think I got it from starting wide grip pull ups. I have been heating (mostly hot shower) and then stretching. Nothing is particularly acute- just certain movements like reaching up above my head with thumb pointed outwards is still pretty uncomfortable. I can do nearly all other full range movements with very little pain. My worse pain is maybe 3 out of 10 and I sleep fine fortunately. At this point, do you think I fall more into the heat category? I bought one of those shoulder slip wraps that has a gel insert (120F)- should I keep it on for 20 minutes a few times a day before stretching?

I also heard that gently hanging from a pull up bar is a great stretch. I keep my feet lightly on the ground. I've been doing these too- don't notice a big difference but it's definitely not any worse.

THANKS!

Please help mate. 31 year old athlete. Have full ROM; 14 months now of shoulder pain. MRI stated “There is mild intermediate signal supraspinatus greater than infraspinatus tendon, consistent with tendinosis. There is mild tendinosis subscapularis tendon. Trace subacromial subdeltoid bursitis. - Impression: 1) Os Acromiale 2) Mild RC tendinosis.” What should i do? I will be doing your RC exercises from previous videos. But really i am desperate for this to heal; so i can continue athletics without this always interfering. Thanks! BTW; could the Os Acromiale be causing all of this? It originally started 14 months ago during an intensive weight lifting regime.

Thank you, this is what I wanted to hear for my case.

I do have supraspinatus tendinosis(maybe in both shoulders). Its been almost 1 and half year since I first started having shoulder pain. Almost since the beginning I've been doing a lot of different rehab training to try strengthen and both give the tendons "what they need to heal". I would say ive comed a far way, and espescially for the last 6 months i am noticing alot of improvement.

Before my injury I did a lot of strength training and I also work with small children\babys and have to use my arms much to carry them etc. Thats how my other arm suddenly had shoulder pain too, cause I compensated at work\dailylife for the first period of my injury and mostly used my "healthy arm" for the heavier lift. Which now have resulted in having two shoulders with pain.

Anyways I feel like ive comed a far way now and with more time and alot of training Im seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. Ive also managed to get a better position at my work which "in theory" should have less heavy lifting.

Im wondering so much what happens if you lift something thats heavy while being still injured? Does the injury go back to the start or what will happen to the tendons if I suddenly lift a 20kgs dumbell or baby for that matter(even heavy grocery bags). Can I risk going back to the beginning? Should you be extra careful doing heavy lifts while having tendinosis? Even when the lifts are performed as slow and controlled as possible?

I appreciate that you take the time to share this information publicly. I have been in and out of medical care for over a year, to no avail, but I am finally understanding what I have through online resources like yours. I don’t know why the medical professionals I’ve seen weren’t able to explain it so clearly. Anyway I am doing the best I can now based on the information I have. Thanks again.