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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
Thank you! I am so glad to know that I'm not alone in this experience, and that my impression of a pinched nerve might be correct. (I messaged my orthopedist but he was noncommittal.) I'm also glad to know that I'm not alone in finding AC painful in general. Not that I wish pain on anyone, but everything I've read says that it's supposed to stop hurting after a while, and mine hasn't. And I'm glad there is hope!
Did the cortisone help? My orthopedist is recommending it, given the continued pain. Otherwise, he says studies have shown that nothing will make this condition heal any faster; I just have to wait it out. That actually makes sense to me. But see my reply to Colleen above – I may have some secondary posture or compensation issues that would benefit from therapy.
Thanks again for your support.
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surgery will fix a frozen shoulder.
Please try cortisone shots! My Physiotherapy Doctor wanted me to try them for six months. They were like a miracle
No more pain. I could go on to work successfully with my P.T.
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Waiting it out is exactly what my doctor said. He said there is surgeries and manual manipulation and a few other things but he said he has never seen any of them work. The cortisone shots really were a lifesaver for me. He also would not order PT until it was thawing on its own because he said that he never found it to be successful either. But once I started doing PT, it thawed and felt better pretty quick. All told I was in it more than a year, and I still have to be careful of shoulder posture. Do you have an appointment for a shot? Have you ever tried topical nsaids, or topical lidocaine?