Pain in shoulders and upper arms.

[Mark Nothing]

I had a similar shoulder pain for years and thought it was from over doing it repainting my whole condo. Just like you are attributing it to too much use of your crutches. 

 

Did you consider another possibility? Have you been using your tablet or smart phone too much, holding your arms outstretched for long periods of time in a static way looking at your screen?

 

One of my friends is a retired physical therapist and he said this type of should/arm pain is a very common problem now and gave me the following information. The human body is made for motion, not to be static.  Knots form in the shoulder leading to pain. I think he called it tendonitis. He gave me two shoulder rubdowns identifying the painful spots and rubbed the tissue vigourously, which was very painful.  This was to unfreeze the static knots.  Like a drinking straw that has collapsed onto itself and no fluid can move, leading to the painful discomfort.  The rubdown objective was to reopen the frozen knots in the tissue.

 

So I quit using my tablet screen too much with outstretched static arms, kept a positive attitude each day that my shoulders would return to painfree and fully functional and it worked.  I even repainted my room a few years later with zero pain.