Nerve disruption to the shoulder, arm, and hand can cause a wide variety of symptoms including numbness, weakness, tingling and pain. Different qualities of pain may also manifest including throbbing pain, sharp stabbing pain, electric shock type pain, and even slow dull aching pain. These type of presentations may be caused by dysfunction of spinal and other joints.

Because shoulder, arm and hand pain and problems may result from stress to areas other than the neck and upper back, a correct diagnosis needs to be made after a thorough assessment of all these regions. Often patients present after having had sports or occupational injuries some involving repetitive stress or incorrect technique. Chiropractic care may remove and correct these problems along with good advice.