What causes shoulder pain in women

Women should never ignore shoulder pain. It may be a symptom caused by many complex diseases. They should pay attention to and treat it in time to relieve their shoulder problems. This disease mainly occurs in middle-aged women around 40 years old. Once it occurs, they should find a suitable treatment method and do not use painkillers indiscriminately.

1. Causes of frozen shoulder:

1. Shoulder causes

① This disease mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old. The basic factors are the degeneration and change of soft tissue and the weakening of the ability to withstand various external forces;

② Chronic injury caused by long-term excessive activity and poor posture is the main trigger;

③ After upper limb trauma, the shoulder is immobilized for too long, causing secondary atrophy and adhesion of the surrounding tissues of the shoulder.

④ Improper treatment after acute contusion or strain of the shoulder, etc.

2. External shoulder factors

Shoulder referred pain caused by cervical spondylosis, heart, lung, and bile duct diseases is transformed into true periarthritis of the shoulder because the primary disease does not heal for a long time, resulting in continuous spasm and ischemia of the shoulder muscles, forming inflammatory lesions.

2. Causes of cervical spondylosis:

The basic pathological change of cervical spondylosis is the degeneration of the intervertebral disc. The cervical vertebrae are located between the head and the thorax. The cervical intervertebral discs need to move frequently while bearing weight, and are prone to excessive minor trauma and strain, leading to illness.

The main pathological changes are: early degeneration of the cervical intervertebral disc, decreased water content of the nucleus pulposus and swelling and thickening of the fibers of the annulus fibrosus, followed by hyaline degeneration and even rupture. After the cervical intervertebral disc degenerates, its resistance to pressure and tension decreases. When affected by the gravity of the head and the pulling force of the head-thoracic muscles, the degenerated intervertebral disc may bulge outward locally or extensively, causing the intervertebral disc space to narrow, the articular processes to overlap and dislocate, and the longitudinal diameter of the intervertebral foramen to decrease.

Due to the weakening of the traction resistance of the intervertebral disc, when the cervical spine moves, the stability between adjacent vertebrae decreases and intervertebral instability occurs, the range of motion between the vertebral bodies increases and the vertebral bodies have slight slippage, followed by bone hyperplasia of the posterior facet joints, uncovertebral joints and vertebral lamina, degeneration of the yellow ligament and nuchal ligament, and changes such as cartilage and ossification.