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Adhesive capsulitis or frozen shoulder: What helps?
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Feb 9 9:24pm | Replies (76)Comment receiving replies
@auntieoakley Have you had a diagnosis of why your shoulder is frozen? I have had this happen to both shoulders. They were at different times and for different reasons, but the initial treatment for both was to try cortisone injection followed by PT. The next step (had these not worked) would have been surgery. It will be important to see why the shoulder is frozen. For me an MRI showed that Shoulder #1 was due to a bone spur. Shoulder #2 was due to a torn rotator cuff. I never knew how much I depended on my shoulders' range of motion until it was gone. The cortisone/PT did work, but it took about 10 weeks before I got full range of motion back.
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Apparently my body likes to create unnecessary scar tissue, there was no injury and no rotator cuff tear. But the shoulder capsule was showing adhesions. I always slept on this side after they put a plate in the other clavicle, I guess maybe that was it. But I have called for another appointment to check the structures surrounding it, just in case something is wounded somehow. The truth is I play with large animals and I do all of the heavy lifting at our home. My husband has bone cancer and a 5 lb. lift limit. So it is always possible I injured it but I don’t remember anything except just waking up one day to the beginning of pain. The doctor found no reason for the scar tissue, but did say he had no real effective treatments. He said ride it out, and it would resolve itself in 1 to 3 years. Thanks to connect I am not just accepting that, but I will stay with treatments that are recommended by Mayo because I trust them. I can not justify traveling there for a hurt shoulder but I have been there many times with my husband. I also cannot really afford travel and uninsured treatments that might or might not be helpful. 10 weeks for you sounds like possibly 16 weeks for me. That is light at the end of the tunnel, in fact geez that is about how long since I was diagnosed, I can do that!