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2 months of pain in shoulder, shoulder back plate, needle pinch pain in fore arm muscle
by sgmuser, Jun 18, 2007 12:00AM
I am a PC user for more than 10+ years. 2 years back i injured my right shoulder while throwing a baseball from deep. Didn't do much on treatment and the pain disappeared. Then a year back, i had a outer shoulder muscle part swelled due to excessive swimming. Apart from these 2 incidents i do not remember any other injuries. as I said i use PCs for almost 5 to 6 hours a day.
Recently for the last two months, i have been feeling pain in the following areas:
1. once in a while, very little or no numbness in last two fingers (little finger and the next one)
2. continuous irritation in a single spot in the back shoulder plate. Painful some times but most of the times, irritation/burning senstation. Sometimes just itchy also in that particular spot and feel like pressing it once or twice.
3. irritating, burning sensation in the area where the shoulder meets the back plate near the armpit.
4. some times inside the armpit
5. after even 10 minutes of PC keyboard/mouse use, with the forearm muscle touching the table, i get the needle pinching sensation/pain in the thick muscle part area. This is the recurring pain. The exact place is the thick muscle facing downwards when we use PC. Just after the elbow joing and few inches before the wrist joint.
6. no pain in the neck though.
MRI shows there is a protrusion in C5-C6 but it doesn't press any nerve. Neural conduction test shows no bad signs.
Recently for the last two months, i have been feeling pain in the following areas:
1. once in a while, very little or no numbness in last two fingers (little finger and the next one)
2. continuous irritation in a single spot in the back shoulder plate. Painful some times but most of the times, irritation/burning senstation. Sometimes just itchy also in that particular spot and feel like pressing it once or twice.
3. irritating, burning sensation in the area where the shoulder meets the back plate near the armpit.
4. some times inside the armpit
5. after even 10 minutes of PC keyboard/mouse use, with the forearm muscle touching the table, i get the needle pinching sensation/pain in the thick muscle part area. This is the recurring pain. The exact place is the thick muscle facing downwards when we use PC. Just after the elbow joing and few inches before the wrist joint.
6. no pain in the neck though.
MRI shows there is a protrusion in C5-C6 but it doesn't press any nerve. Neural conduction test shows no bad signs.
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It would appear that some of your symptoms may be related to an ulnar nerve compression/impingement/injury. The previous shoulder injuries could theoretically cause such an injury.
The pain symptoms at the back could still be related to nerve impingement at the shoulder area with referred pain to the back.
You could have an orthopedist or neurologist evaluate the possibility of a shoulder condition causing the symptoms.
Hope this helps.