Sports Injuries

Shoulder bursitis is a medical condition where the fluid-filled sac that acts as a cushion between the bones and tendons in the shoulder become inflamed. This condition is caused by various factors, such as sport injuries or occupational and accident-related injuries. Aging has also been known to be a cause for developing the condition.

Symptoms for shoulder bursitis frequently include mild pain and loss of strength but if left untreated, this condition may become more severe and the symptoms could worsen.

Shoulder pain is a common symptom for many types of injuries or conditions affecting the shoulders but a frequent diagnosis given for this type of pain is shoulder bursitis or rotator cuff tendonitis. 

Shoulder bursitis and rotator cuff tendonitis are two terms used to describe inflammation within the shoulder joint that causes a set of similar symptoms. Best referred to as "impingement syndrome", this occurs when the rotator cuff tendons and the bursa that surrounds these becomes inflamed. 

Tendonitis and bursitis are different from one another but, in the majority of the cases, impingement syndrome can be a combination of these two conditions.