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My upper back in between my shoulder blades more on right side has intense pain can not turn my head to the right or move my arm up and down?

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Many possibilities : It sounds like you may have a pinched nerve in your neck, perhaps at the C5 or C6 levels and you may also be developing a secondary frozen shoulder. Learn more here: http://theshouldercenter.Com/pinched-nerve-in-shoulder.Htm and http://theshouldercenter.Com/frozen-shoulder.Htm see your doctor.

Answered 10/16/2018

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