Do I need to see my doctor?
Not normally. If you follow the right advice and take the right medication, your shoulder problem should improve over the next six weeks.
If you experience any of the following, you should speak to your doctor:
- Pain that spreads below your elbow.
- You are unable to move you arm at all.
- You are unable to move your hand above your shoulder.
- Any lumps or bumps, which have suddenly appeared around your shoulder.
- Hot, burning, shooting or stabbing pains around your shoulder or into your arm lasting more than one week.
- Pain that gets worse and worse.
- Your shoulder problem has not improved within six weeks.