Your provider at Town Center Orthopaedics begins by reviewing your medical and family history and current health. While examining your shoulder, they ask you for details about your pain, how it started, and what makes it worse or better.

Following your exam, you might need diagnostic imaging tests. State-of-the-art X-ray facilities are available on-site for your convenience.

You might also need to undergo a shoulder arthroscopy. This minimally invasive procedure uses a tiny camera on a flexible tube to see inside your shoulder joint. In some cases, your provider can treat the cause of your shoulder pain at the same time.

Once your provider makes a diagnosis, they prepare your personalized treatment program.

Acute shoulder pain from a fracture or dislocation is likely to require an expert setting followed by a period of immobilization with a sling.

Shoulder pain conditions typically benefit from physical therapy at the Town Center Orthopaedics state-of-the-art facilities. Physical therapies could include joint mobilization and manipulation, stretching and strengthening exercises, and instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization.

Resting the joint is important to enable the tissues to heal while anti-inflammatory medications and hot and cold treatments can help reduce pain and inflammation.

Regenerative medicine treatments like platelet-rich plasma, CLARIX® FLO placental tissue, stem cell therapy, and prolotherapy could also help by stimulating tissue repair and healthy cell growth.

If your shoulder pain isn’t responding to the most conservative treatments, it might require joint injections containing steroids. These are powerful anti-inflammatories that could provide longer-term relief from your shoulder pain.

Your provider at Town Center Orthopaedics administers these injections using image-guidance technology. If the injections aren’t working, you might need to consider surgery to relieve your shoulder pain.