Shoulder pain may frequently be joint or tendon origin (eg. Frozen shoulder syndrome when damaged muscle insertions repeated loads). Usually it is also limited his mobility.

At other times, the pain radiates to the arm and of some internal organs. Most often it is in the left shoulder due to heart disease – angina and myocardial infarction. These diseases are caused bylimiting the flow of one heart (coronary) artery and is often linked to previous physical stress. A worsening angina pectoris then it may not be a “burden” not too big, just for example. Trodden stairs to the second floor. The pain usually goes within 5 minutes. Myocardial infarction can start even at rest, pain when it is more intense and lasts longer than 20 minutes. Is accompanied by other symptoms – eg. Breathlessness, pallor, vomiting.

The pain starts in the chest (behind the breastbone) and spreads to the left shoulder, where it may continue up to the fingertips of your left leg (especially in childhood). In such situations where yoususpect a heart attack (the patient is really in critical condition), call for urgent assistance to the sick and administer nitroglycerin tablet if it is carrying (sick with previous angina pectoris).

Right shoulder can radiate gallbladder disease when biliary colic (severe pain, especially under the right costal arch spreading to the surroundings) and left another disease of the pancreas (acute inflammation) and acute inflammation of the lining around the heart (pericarditis) mimicking and myocardial infarction. Relief in this case brings bent over.