What causes pain in back/bicep when having degenerative disc with shoulder replacement?
Patient: i have degenerative disc at L2,L3,L4L5,S1  i have also had a pain across my back for the past 4 weeks and it is bad.  seems like it in the scapula area from left to right.  and on the right side some pain goes down the right bicep.  Also keep in mind that I have both shoulders totally replaced. Doctor: It looks to me that apart from disc protrusion at your back you are also having cervical disc protrusion. This leads to nerve compression and it causes pain in shoulder, biceps and in scapular region. My advice to you is to get cervical spine MRI. Treatment for this will be intermittent cervical traction exercises and neck muscle strengthening exercises. Drugs which will help you are Myospaz and Myoril. Also you should take Pregablin and Methylcobal.