What are the effective ways to minimize osteoarthritis shoulder pain?

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What are the effective ways to minimize osteoarthritis shoulder pain?

Answer 1

Hi

Depends on what you've already tried.

Painkillers sometimes help - and anti-inflammatory tablets are good for some people but can cause troublesome side effects.

Injections can give lasting pain relief in quite a few patients but it depends if the arthritis is severe or not. Some doctors are using hyaluronic acid as an injection to arthritic shoulders and seem to be getting good results. Other names for hyaluronic acid are Hyalgan or Synvisc - you might want to search the web using those words for more information.

Shoulder joint replacement surgery is becoming more common and now has a good success rate.

Physiotherapy and osteopath treatments can also help with pain relief - as can acupuncture and TENS machines.

Lots for you to consider

Hope that helps

You can read more about shoulder arthritis here: http://painfulshoulder.org/index.php/opt...

Answer 2

Here are a few links you should check out.  First one is Nat'l Insitute of Health on arthritis resources The second one is a really good article on controlling pain.  Good luck

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/chronic...