There are many kinds of causes of pain in the periapical region, such as frozen shoulder, rotator cuff injury, acromioclavicular impingement syndrome, and each kind of treatment is different, for example, after the occurrence of frozen shoulder, you can take rest, physical therapy, hot compresses and functional exercises, and most of the patients can be cured after half a year.
Patients with minor rotator cuff injuries can be treated conservatively. If severe injuries result in significant weakness of the joint or limitation of activities, surgery is needed to repair the damaged rotator cuff, and full recovery will take three to six months.
Shoulder impingement syndrome is caused by abnormal development of the acromion, so this condition also requires arthroscopic acromioplasty.
So it’s not true that a one-trick pony is the answer to peri-acromial pain, it needs to be treated according to the cause of the pain.