Elderly people with right shoulder pain should be alert to diseases such as frozen shoulder, rotator cuff injury, cervical intervertebral disc herniation, heart disease and lung disease.
1. Frozen shoulder: the elderly have aseptic inflammation in the shoulder joint due to adhesion of tendons and fascia in the right shoulder joint. This leads to edema and congestion around the shoulder joint, which in turn leads to shoulder pain.
2. Rotator cuff injury: due to the degeneration of the shoulder joint and the repeated lifting activities of the shoulder joint, the elderly have excessive friction between the acromion and the right humeral tuberosity, which may cause aseptic inflammation of the subacromial bursa in severe cases, thus causing right shoulder pain.
3. Cervical disc herniation: the elderly cervical disc herniation compresses and stimulates the right cervical nerve root, which will cause right shoulder pain.
4. Heart disease: the elderly are prone to angina pectoris, when angina attack can occur right shoulder pain and launching pain.
5. Lung disease: when pleurisy or right lung tumor invades the right pleura, right shoulder pain can be caused by right pleural inflammation involving the right shoulder.
Right shoulder pain in the elderly may also have other diseases such as degenerative osteoarthritis, etc. It is recommended to go to the hospital in time for standardized treatment under the guidance of the doctor.