If a patient experiences pain when the shoulder is lifted, there are various reasons for this occurrence, the most common being that the patient is suffering from frozen shoulder and rotator cuff injury. These two conditions are different and are treated differently, so it is important to make a clear determination before treatment. If the patient has a rotator cuff injury, the patient should be instructed to apply brakes to the shoulder joint during treatment. You can also apply topical ointment for blood circulation and bruising to the shoulder joint or fumigate it with Chinese herbs, and take oral anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs to relieve pain. If the patient has frozen shoulder, which causes pain when lifting the shoulder, the patient can be instructed to perform active or passive shoulder exercises to prevent adhesions in the shoulder joint that may affect functional activities. In addition, the exercises can be combined with physiotherapy apparatus baking electricity, microwave apparatus treatment, or the application of acupuncture, moxibustion and small needle knife prying, loosening and other methods.