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If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patient's description.

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I have pain from my neck and radiates down to my shoulder blade and down my arm. Sometimes feels like electric shock going down from my neck to my hand. I have excruciating pain on a daily basis in my neck and shoulder blade. Only my left shoulder. I have had an ultrasound and xray and it showed some arthritis and some inflammation of the tendon. But the pain is so bad that it has to be much more than that. It is especially bad when I am sitting down on the computer or driving. At rest it sometimes hurts as well. I have not been able to sleep for a long time.

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Hi, thank-you for providing the brief history of you. As you mentioned your symptoms, for me, it appears to be more of the Radiating pain from the Cervical spine to the hand. These symptoms are mostly due to Cervical spine disc degenerative changes. Based on the Neuromuscular assessment it will be possible to figure out the level of the nerve getting pinched in the cervical spine. Also, some orthopedic and Neurological test will be performed to manually in clinic configure out if the pain is due to the neurological factor, or it is due to orthopedic factors. With the test it will even help assess the injury is dude to Cervical spine or due to shoulder pathology once confirmed with the special clinical tests, the MRI is guided for the cervical spine to see the extent of the nerve root injury. Post that a physical therapy will be advised as to reduce the pain and inflammation by means of therapeutic ultrasound therapy and TENS therapy. Also, at later stages exercises will be taught to improve the strength in the muscles of the neck region and upper limb as a whole. As per my experience 99% cases have received physical therapy with 99% of success. I recommend you to follow these guidelines as to help better. Do regular exercises even in future to avoid the remissions of the symptoms. RegardsJay In Chat Doctor. 