Acromioclavicular Joint Injury: Shoulder Top Pain and a Bump After a Fall, Most Don't Need Surgery
Let me start with the most important sentence: if you land on the top of your shoulder during a fall, and it hurts there later, or even pops up a bony bump, it’s probably an “acromioclavicular joint” injury. Most people don’t need surgery. How bad the injury is determines whether you need an operation. I’m writing this for people who just fell on their shoulder and saw a new bump in the mirror, for weightlifters whose shoulder top constantly hurts, and for families whose older relatives got an X-ray and were told “the joint got wider.” ...