hand pain

I am post op 8 wks from shoulder surgery to remove a shoulder bone spur and replace part of my clavicular.  Since the surgery I have had extreme pain in my hand and fingers and can feel the pain path from just below my shoulder to my fingers.  Nothing helps.  My surgeon adamantly believes it is not involving nerves in my shoulder.  He wants me to go to PT for my neck which is fine.  The pain involves voluntarily each and every one of my fingers.  This pain is extreme.  It comes and goes and sometimes I can find the line of pain in my arm and squeeze it for relief.  I think I need an EMG to start, but will that show where the impingement begins whether in the shoulder or in the arm?

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

An EMG may not show you the entire picture. You will need Nerve conduction study. This will tell you exactly which nerve is getting compressed. I suspect the impingement is at the shoulder level.

Regards