Shoulder blade pain due to some strained muscles

Pain in the shoulder blade may range from moderate to acute. Regardless however, it causes a certain degree of discomfort such that one person suffering from it may find it difficult to concentrate and focus his attention on anything. As a consequence, the ability of the person to carry out his day to day tasks may be hampered. Therefore, it becomes necessary that one effectively finds a way to get rid of shoulder blade pain. But it must be underscored that getting rid of the pain requires more than just relieving or easing out the pain. Rather, the objective here is to make sure that the person inflicted with shoulder blade pain may normally function again; that he would not in any way be hindered from doing normal and usual activities.

Moreover, the question on how to get rid of shoulder blade pain also implies a certain degree of knowledge as to the cause of the pain. Any medication applied or any attempt to get rid of the pain may not be successful, at least in the long run, if the cause of the pain remains completely unknown. The idea here is that such a medical condition may be rooted in different causes. And some of these causes may not be treated in the same manner. One may respond to a certain form of medical treatment while the other may completely be unresponsive. Thus, depending on how effective the treatment is and how responsive the identified cause of such condition has been to the said treatment, it is on these bases that one can gauge the success of any attempt at getting rid of shoulder pain.

Two points are crucial here. First, a certain degree of determination of the cause of the shoulder pain must be made in the process in order to also determine the most appropriate medication to be administered to the person/patient. Second, not all causes respond to the same treatment; however in the same vein, not all causes have to be treated differently – there may be some which may respond to the same treatment.

For instance, a person who is suffering from shoulder blade pain due to some strained muscles or tendons means that he may have been over-exercising so that the muscles are already overused. On the other hand, another person may have tripped off the stairs causing direct injury, although not a serious one, on his shoulder blades causing an inflammation to the tissues surrounding the shoulder blades. Both persons may take anti-inflammatory oral medicines such as ibuprofen and naproxen.

However, the case is different if the pain is a radiated pain (pain signaled from another body organ which is in fact the one which is in pain or is in need of medical attention). Thus, if shoulder blade pain is in fact a radiated pain from the abdominal system due to ulcer, then merely drinking ibuprofen may not be a real solution. Further, if shoulder blade pain is referred pain from the heart – a heart ailment or condition – then surely a different medication has to be administered to the person. Therefore, to know the cause may be a requisite for an effective solution to getting rid of shoulder pain.