Can doing Baduanjin cause pain in the left shoulder blade?

Doing Baduanjin may cause pain in the left shoulder blade, which may be caused by too long exercise time, cold left shoulder blade during exercise, or it may be caused by induced cervical spondylosis, myocardial ischemia and other pathological reasons.
1. Strain, cold and other reasons: Ba Duan Jin is a kind of exercise that the people like very much in daily life, but if the exercise time is too long, it may lead to fatigue injury of local soft tissues, cause accumulation of metabolites, and symptoms of pain in the left scapula; in addition, if you don’t pay attention to warmth in the process of exercising, and if your left scapula is exposed to the cold for a long period of time, you may also have the symptoms mentioned above.
2. Cervical spondylosis: patients with cervical spondylosis may be induced to have cervical spondylosis attacks if the exercise posture is not standardized, resulting in pressure on the spinal nerve root, which may also cause pain symptoms in the left scapula.
3. Myocardial ischemia: patients with a bad heart may induce myocardial ischemia if they exercise in Baduanjin, which may also cause referred pain in the left shoulder blade area.
If the patient’s left scapula pain is not relieved after lifestyle modification, the patient should consult a doctor in time to clarify the cause of the disease, and under the guidance of the doctor for treatment.