What are the symptoms of scapulohumeral periarthritis?

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Scapulohumeral periarthritis is a chronic specific inflammation of shoulder joint capsule and its surrounding ligaments, tendons and bursa, which is characterized by gradual shoulder pain, especially at night, and the limitation and aggravation of shoulder joint activity function.

What are the symptoms of scapulohumeral periarthritis?

Shoulder pain: at first, the shoulder presents paroxysmal pain, most of which are chronic attacks. Later, the pain gradually intensifies or stuns, or knife cut pain, which is persistent. Climate change or fatigue often aggravates the pain. The pain can spread to the neck and upper limbs (especially the elbow). When the shoulder is accidentally impacted or pulled, it can often cause tearing pain, Shoulder pain is light in the day and heavy at night, which is a major feature of the disease. Most patients often complain of waking up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep, especially unable to lie on the side of the affected side. This situation is more obvious due to blood deficiency: if the pain is caused by cold, it is particularly sensitive to climate change.

Limitation of shoulder joint movement: shoulder joint movement in all directions can be limited, especially abduction, lifting, internal and external rotation. With the progress of the disease, due to the adhesion of joint capsule and soft tissue around the shoulder caused by long-term disuse, the muscle strength gradually decreases, and the Coracobrachial ligament is fixed in the shortened internal rotation position and other factors, the active and passive activities of shoulder joint in all directions are limited, When the shoulder joint abduction, there is a typical "shoulder carrying" phenomenon, especially when combing hair, dressing, washing face, akimbo and other movements are difficult to complete, serious elbow function can also be affected, the hand can not touch the same side of the shoulder when bending elbow, especially when the arm extension can not complete the elbow flexion.

Muscle spasm and atrophy: the muscles around the shoulder, such as deltoid muscle and supraspinatus muscle, may have spasm in the early stage, and disuse muscle atrophy in the late stage, with typical symptoms such as acromion protrusion, inconvenient lifting and unfavorable backward bending. At this time, the pain symptoms are alleviated.

matters needing attention

Although society is progressing and people's living standards are constantly improving, people pay more attention to their health. But the diseases brought by work or fatigue always come quietly, just as periarthritis of shoulder makes us unable to prevent. Only through prevention in advance can we achieve the desired effect. The above are several treatment methods introduced by Anhui Affiliated Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, hope to help you.