Everyone who has suffered from neck pain understands the limits it can place on one’s life. Because Chiropractic specializes on issues of the spine, Chiropractic has long been identified as the field of medicine most qualified to relieve both minor and severe neck pain.
Shoulder pain is often caused by nerve compression or irritation within the cervical spine (neck). However, the shoulder is complex and could have several key components causing the pain directly in the joint.
The nerves connected to muscles and other soft tissue in the shoulder are connected, as is nearly everything within the body, to root nerves that connect directly to the spine. When root nerves in the cervical spine are under pressure or irritated, then pain, loss of sensation and weakness in the shoulder can occur.