Touch Pads Are Evil

For the last four or five months my shoulder, elbow, and sometimes the muscles going down the right side of my spine have been in pain.  The level of pain has not been constant, but the pain itself has.  I have not been able to do cow-face pose

for this entire period of time, or at least not with my right arm being the lower arm.  This really bummed me out because the last time I was dealing with this type of pain (on the left side though) cow-face pose was the cure.  Everything I tried to get rid of the pain was useless.