If you are currently suffering from inflammation, swelling or other painful symptoms caused by shoulder bursitis, then it is highly likely that this is starting to affect your work, sleep and lifestyle.

Bursitis of the shoulder (impingement syndrome) occurs when there is swelling and redness between the top of the arm bone and the tip of the shoulder Between these bones lie the tendons of the rotator cuff and a fluid-filled sac called the bursa, which protects the tendons.

Normally, the tendons slide effortlessly within this space. In some people this space becomes too narrow for normal motion. This causes irritation to the tendons and bursa, which become inflamed. Inflammation causes the tendons and bursa to swell, making the space for movement still smaller eventually, this space becomes too narrow for the tendons and the bursa .Every time they move, they are pinched between the bones. This is the impingement.

Chinese Herbs (Moxibustion) treatment has been helpful in treatment of this condition.