About 4 months ago, I was diagnosed with a shoulder impingement. I've completed physical therapy and continue to exercise my shoulder regularly. My question is this: I continue to play softball during which I still have a little bit of shoulder pain. Am I risking further injury by playing through the minor pain?

Repetitive minor pain can have an accumulative effect on the rotator cuff tendon and bursae. If nonoperative treatment has failed to alleviate your symptoms you may want to consider surgery. An arthroscopic shoulder procedure, performed through several 1/4 inch incisions, can widen the bony space which contacts over the bursae and rotator cuff tendon when you perform overhead activities such as softball.