After a fall, and with the onset of your symptoms, it’s a good idea to have your shoulder evaluated by your health care provider. Treatment can improve a rotator cuff injury.

Most rotator-cuff tears are degenerative, atraumatic, and more prevalent with age. Nonoperative treatment, including physical ...

The shoulder joint is composed of three bones: the humerus (upper arm bone), the scapula (shoulder blade) and the clavicle (collarbone ... rheumatoid arthritis and post-traumatic arthritis. The common ...

Shoulder blade pain is a sign of lung cancer in some people. Lung cancer may be especially be suspected if you also have other symptoms of lung cancer or your shoulder pain worsens at night. With that ...

At least 30% of those who try two or more antidepressants continue to have serious symptoms. That's called treatment-resistant depression. If it happens to you, keep in mind that there are still ...

Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and associate professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health.

It's not typically serious, but in rare instances, shoulder blade pain may be a sign of a severe condition, like a heart attack or cancer. Sometimes the pain you feel is referred, meaning that it ...

Though it’s the most common skin condition in the United States, determining the best acne treatment for your skin is still challenging. Acne treatments include prescription medications ...

If they cause symptoms, you may need to have your gallbladder ... sharp pain in the abdomen that can radiate to the back or shoulder blade. The cause of gallstones is thought to be due to having ...

It's a treatment long used to combat compression sickness in divers, and wounds that will not heal. But at the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research, in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel ...

As the toxic drug crisis continues to claim thousands of lives each year — fuelling perceptions that existing measures are failing — the notion of involuntary treatment is gaining political ...