Global Orthopaedics and Sports Injury Centre

 Around 80 percent of adult individuals have low back pain during their lifetime. You can experience back pain from: • A fall • An accident • Changes that occur in your spine as you age • Lifting something heavy • A medical condition or disorder • Usually, your pain will go away over time. However, if the pain in your back doesn’t improve or becomes severe, you may require medical care. How To Know If Back Pain Is Serious? Whether your back pain is intermittent, piercing or achy and constant, you are probably wondering if it should be a cause for concern. However, the severity of your symptoms is not the only indicator of whether your back pain is serious.  For instance, you can experience intense pain from a pulled back muscle — but this will usually go away after several days of treating it at home. But, with something like lumbar degenerative disc disease, you can experience a dull, moderate ache in your back, which won’t necessarily be intense but could become ...

  Frozen shoulder  is a condition that affects  shoulder   joint . It usually involves pain and stiffness that develops gradually, gets worse and then finally goes away. This can take anywhere from a year to 3 years. Your shoulder is made up of three bones that form a ball-and-socket joint. They are your upper arm (humerus), shoulder blade (scapula), and collarbone (clavicle). There’s also tissue surrounding your shoulder joint that holds everything together. This is called the shoulder capsule. With frozen shoulder, the capsule becomes so thick and tight that it’s hard to move.   Symptoms The main symptoms of a frozen shoulder are pain and stiffness that make it difficult or impossible to move it. If you have frozen shoulder , you wi ll likely feel a dull or achy pain in one shoulder. You might also feel the pain in the shoulder muscles that wrap around the top of your arm. You might feel the same sensation in your upper arm. Your pain could get wo...