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Table 2 Red Flags and symptoms of specific shoulder pain

From: Towards an integrated clinical framework for patient with shoulder pain

Anamnestic and clinical

Features of red flags

Sign and symptoms of

Specific shoulder pain

Fever, shivering, changes in body temperature overnight, diaphoresis, nausea, unexplainable sweating overnight, vomiting, sphincteric complaints, diarrhoea, paleness, fatigue, lurching, fainting, exhaustion, excessive and unexplainable weakness, not linked to any physical effort, unexplainable loss of weight, skin rash, unexplainable multiple hematoma, lumps over the body, deformities, inability to lay supine in bed, marked muscle weakness, marked restriction of movement, limb atrophy, local pain and pain during load when age is less than 20 years old and more than 50.

Recent trauma of the shoulder complex, high reactivity of symptoms, pain during the night, limitation of flexion (< 90° both passive and active), apprehension, fear of movement and/or weakness during humeral external rotation.