Shoulder pain is one of the most common—and most misunderstood—complaints in orthopedic and sports practice.

Is it rotator cuff–related?
Cervical referral?
Labral involvement?
Neural contribution?
Thoracic influence?

Too often, providers rely on special tests, isolated strength findings, or pain location alone—only to feel uncertain when the presentation doesn’t neatly fit a textbook diagnosis.

In this month’s exclusive lecture, we walk you through a structured framework for correctly identifying the different sources of shoulder pain—so you can move beyond guesswork and into confident clinical reasoning.