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Acute calcification of the shoulder hurts.  Badly.  Some people require strong narcotic medications for the pain in addition to simple analgesics like paracetamol and antiinflammatories.  It might spontaneously resolve, but not alway.  If the pain is severe or persistent, surgery is often recommended.  The attached video demonstrates the calcium being squeezed out of the rotator cuff.  This “pimple” of calcium and the angry tissue around it gets squeezed every time the shoulder is moved up, so its hardly surprising patients come asking for it to be fixed!

Chronic calcification is similar, but more difficult to get out, and might require tendon repair surgery at the same time.  Sufficient people settle without surgery for us to know that surgery isn’t required for everyone.  But “if pain persists…..”