Arm/shoulder pain after TIAs

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Hi,

I’m new here so I’ve been reading through some previous posts which have been very helpful.

I had 3 TIAs, over the course of 12 hours, 5 weeks ago. I experienced right arm weakness and was unable to hold my arm up each time but no other symptoms.

I’ve had intermittent upper arm pain since but it’s moving more into my shoulder now. My range of movement is small and I’m quite limited what I can do.

Has anyone else experienced this following a TIA. I’d been told there would be no damage with a TIA or post event symptoms such as this or the fatigue, brain fog and memory loss I’m also experiencing.

Feeling a bit lost as I still feel exhausted and not able to go back to work yet. Left the hospital with very limited advice.

Thanks all,

Emma

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Hi Emma

Maybe one of the TIAs was a stroke? Hopefully not. Try something like exercises for the SITS muscles. Ciao, Roland

The SITS muscles are the four muscles that make up the rotator cuff in the shoulder. They are:

  1. Supraspinatus
  • Location: Sits in the supraspinous fossa of the scapula (above the spine of the scapula).
  • Function: Assists in abduction of the arm (lifting it away from the body) and stabilizes the humeral head in the glenoid cavity.
  1. Infraspinatus
  • Location: Occupies the infraspinous fossa of the scapula (below the spine of the scapula).
  • Function: Externally rotates the arm and helps stabilize the shoulder joint.
  1. Teres Minor
  • Location: Located on the posterior scapula, just below the infraspinatus.
  • Function: Assists in external rotation and adduction of the arm, as well as stabilizing the shoulder joint.
  1. Subscapularis
  • Location: Found on the anterior surface of the scapula, in the subscapular fossa.
  • Function: Internally rotates the arm and stabilizes the humeral head in the glenoid cavity.

Together, these muscles play a crucial role in shoulder stability and movement.

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Hi @Abc123 & welcome to the community. Sorry to hear of your TIAs. They say TIAs don’t normally have lasting symptoms but it seems some people find they do. Is it possible that the problems with yourcarm / shoulder could be unrelated? Maybe a frozen shoulder? It’s worth getting some medical advice on it.

Look up some exercises that you could do & see if that helps.

Best wishes.

Ann

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Hi @Abc123 Emma,

Welcome to the community.
Hopefully you’ll soon get the answers to help you move forward.
Wishing you all the best.

Namaste|
:pray:

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Hi @Abc123 Emma

Welcome to the community, I’m sorry to hear about your TIAs.

I’m please to hear you’re already finding the community helpful. I hope some of the answers given here will be of more help to you.

In addition to these I’d like to share one of our webpages with you that has some information on about TIAs, you can find the webpage here. There is a section at the bottom of that webpage that you can click on which talks about the effects of a TIA.

If you need anything whilst you’re using the Online Community, please don’t hesitate to tag me using the @ symbol and my username.

Anna