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Conservative first-line therapy includes rehabilitation programs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and lifestyle modification. Physical therapy is targeted at strengthening the rotator cuff muscles, trapezius, levator scapulae, rhomboids, serratus anterior, and deltoid muscle(s). If non-operative treatment fails to relieve suprascapular neuropathy, minimally invasive treatment options exist, such as suprascapular nerve injection, neurostimulation, cryoneurolysis, and pulsed radiofrequency. Multiple treatment modalities are often used synergistically due to variations in shoulder anatomy, physiology, pain response, and pathology as a sole therapeutic option does not seem successful for all cases. Often patients can be treated with non-invasive measures alone; however, injuries refractory to conservative treatment may require either arthroscopic or open surgery, particularly if the patient has an identifiable and reversible cause of nerve compression. Indications for invasive treatment include, but are not limited to, refractory to non-operative treatment, have a space-occupying lesion, or show severe signs and symptoms of muscle atrophy. 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