What is shoulder injury?

Most problems in the shoulder involve muscles, ligaments, and tendons, rather than the bones and are frequently caused by activities that involve excessive, repetitive, overhead motion, such as swimming, tennis, pitching, and weightlifting. Trauma from accidents may also cause shoulder injuries.

How do members experience shoulder injury?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with shoulder injury*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for shoulder injury*

Who has shoulder injury on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 3
20s 17
30s 43
40s 65
50s 94
60s 83
70+ 43

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 139
Female 193

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What is shoulder injury?

Most problems in the shoulder involve muscles, ligaments, and tendons, rather than the bones and are frequently caused by activities that involve excessive, repetitive, overhead motion, such as swimming, tennis, pitching, and weightlifting. Trauma from accidents may also cause shoulder injuries.



Common symptoms reported by people with shoulder injury

Common symptoms
How bad it is
What people are taking for it

Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
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Treatments taken by people for shoulder injury

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Compare treatments taken by people with shoulder injury

Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have shoulder injury through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.

Got a question about living with shoulder injury? Members in the forum might have the answers.



Who has shoulder injury on PatientsLikeMe?

  • 4 new patients joined this month
  • 155 say shoulder injury is their primary condition

Age
Age Proportion # of patients
<20 3
20s 17
30s 43
40s 65
50s 94
60s 83
70+ 43

Distribution of sex

Sex
Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 139
Female 193

These charts show data from shoulder injury patients who have completed their condition history
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