Referred Shoulder Pain can be hard to distinguish from actual shoulder pathology. These conditions may cause more of a constant pain with little variation with activity and also the time of day. These conditions require careful history and detailed examination for diagnosis. Otherwise the can become a long term source of ongoing pain. Conditions below all can cause referred pain:
1. Cervical Radiculopathy especially C 6 and C 7 root compressions
2. Diaphragmatic irritation
3. Suprascapular neuropathy
4. Herpes Zoster
5. Thoracic outlet syndrome
6. Myocardial Infarction
7. Brachial plexuses
8. Pneumonia
9. Spinal Cord lesion
10. Pulmonary embolism
11. Lung cancer
12. Axillary venous thrombosis
13. Hepatobiliary disease
14. Spinal stenosis
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