Shoulder pain can be debilitating. It can affect your quality of life by making everyday activities painful or just impossible.

For instance, with a rotator cuff injury, it’s even hard to open the orange juice bottle. And with any form of shoulder instability or chronic pain, tasks like driving a car can actually become dangerous.

Whether your shoulder pain or injury is from an accident, sports, or deterioration due to overuse or age, traditional shoulder pain treatments will most often involve medication and physical therapy. They often require surgery, which many people try to avoid. But there is another way.