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Frozen shoulder means your shoulder is painful and stiff for months, sometimes years. It can be treated with shoulder exercises and painkillers.  The pain can be worse at night when sleeping the pain is so bad it makes it hard to move your arm and shoulder.

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Shoulder impingement Syndrome is a very common cause of shoulder pain, where a tendon (band of tissue) inside your shoulder rubs or catches on nearby tissue and bone as you lift your arm.  It affects the rotator cuff tendon, which is the rubbery tissue that connects the muscles around your shoulder joint to the top of your arm. An impinging shoulder will often improve in a few weeks or months, especially with the right type of shoulder exercises, but occasionally it can be an ongoing problem.

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Rotator Cuff is the group of muscles and tendons that surround your shoulder joint. Tendons are strong bands of tissue that connect muscles to bones. Your rotator cuff helps to keep your shoulder stable and working well.

You can injure your rotator cuff suddenly, or it can happen over time, due to wear and tear on your shoulder joint

Types of Rotator Cuff Injury

• Rotator Cuff Tear is when one or more of the muscles and tendons that make up your rotator cuff tears. You can have a partial or a full tear. A tear can happen suddenly, after a single injury. Or, it can develop gradually, over time.

• Tendinopathy is a term which covers many different conditions affecting the tendons around your shoulder. Some of the tendons can become trapped between a bone at the top of your arm and the top of your shoulder blade. This is called subacromial or shoulder impingement. The tendon can eventually tear over time.

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