May be precipitated by minor or injury. May start without any cause. Causes pain, stiffness and sleepless nights. X-ray usually does not reveal much. MRI or ultrasonography may reveal rotator cuff partial tears or other soft tissue lesions.
Treatment is mainly medical, consisting anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy.
In some cases local injection of steroids in the joint by a specialist. This is a common condition in which calcium is deposited in the rotator cuff tendon. The deposition and presence of calcium in the cuff is painless. However resorption of calcium often causes severe pain. It occurs in middle age and is common in people who use their shoulder joint excessively like manual workers.