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  • foxylady
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    Can my Cervical Spine Nerve Compression cause Shoulder Impingement? C6 C7 nerve compression.
    My Orthopaedic Dr still insists it is my neck causing the shoulder problems with the impingement. How can that be? I don’t understand. He told me a bone spur was rubbing on muscle but then the guided injection dr told me no, the bone spur is rubbing on your tendon that is why it has torn. He also said the inflammation is giving causing me more problems than the bone spur. I don’t know who to take notice of.

    The guided injection I had yesterday has made my shoulder hurt more today, it is all stiff and painful and I cannot lift arm up very high now.

    Donald Corenman, MD, DC
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    I could theorize that cervical Spine Nerve Compression causes Shoulder Impingement but in practice, it would be exceedingly rare. Typically, a hooked acromion causes this. An easy way to disproved of this theory is to do a selective nerve root block of the C7 nerve. No temporary relief indicates the nerve is not involved.

    Inability to lift the “arm up very high” is not a C7 nerve function but a C5 nerve function or a rotator cuff tear/inflammation.

    Dr. Corenman

    PLEASE REMEMBER, THIS FORUM IS MEANT TO PROVIDE GENERAL INFORMATION ON SPINE ANATOMY, CONDITIONS AND TREATMENTS. TO GET AN ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS, YOU MUST VISIT A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL IN PERSON.
     
    Donald Corenman, MD, DC is a highly-regarded spine surgeon, considered an expert in the area of neck and back pain. Trained as both a Medical Doctor and Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Corenman earned academic appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and his research on spine surgery and rehabilitation has resulted in the publication of multiple peer-reviewed articles and two books.
    foxylady
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    Thank you Sir. You really are my hero in all this.

    I have the shoulder dr saying it’s your spine and the spine dr saying it’s your shoulders.
    I asked the dr who did the guided injection – will my tendon tears heal on their own?
    He said, “No, never”
    So I said well they should be helping me then, operating to fix them.
    He said, “They won’t operate as you are not bad enough yet.”

    I said well I can hardly do anything due to pain and symptoms, isn’t that bad enough!

    The scans showed bone spurs in my shoulders, so I don’t see how the spine could cause those.

    Would you agree that the shoulder can cause falls, by trapping blood flow to my head? As since these guided injections at least the falls stopped, I haven’t had those any more, so it’s nice not to have needed ambulances out to pick me up of the floor and take me to A&E.

    How do they fix the tendons tears if they do operate? I am scared they won’t help me and I’ll be left unable to use my arm.

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