Frozen shoulder.

So, on top of my recent eye drama it has been diagnosed that I have onset of a frozen left shoulder which being right handed has taken me about 3 months to have arrived at that doctors/physio appointment.

I was quite disappointed at the lack of a cause with the only issue he could correlate it to being that of my type2 diabetes.

Anyone here gone or going through this situation ?

Cheers, Andy

I've had a couple, left side about 10years ago. Did all of the physio to no avail, had a couple cortisone injections which only last a short while. After 18months my GP finally referred to surgeon and after another 6months had surgery. The physio was brutal.
Fast forward 8years things have moved on, my right side went. I was offered a procedure called hydro distension, whereby a big needle is shoved into the shoulder using a ultra sound to get the correct area, then a magic goo is forced in under pressure. Within an hr you get physio which is tad uncomfortable. Its surprising how little the needle hurts considering the size of it.
The recovery time before normal use is quite long for surgery at 4months for me, the injection was weeks.
They reckon a frozen shoulder will sort itself out in about a year which in my experience is nonsense. My wife got one a little while back for no apparent reason, usually they are caused by repetitive jobs.

Not me, but a friend of mine had a FS. Loads of hospital physio stuff which made no difference. It went on for years. They wanted to operate, he didn't.

Then he went to see a chiropractor and she took one look and said, "well this is wrong and that is wrong, let's try this", and after a couple of sessions he was right as rain. It's never come back.

S

On three occasions during that last couple of years with members of our family it's been simple physio therapy that has eased and in one case solved major 'medical' problems that were not going away.

My father had FS and after suffering for years and having various hospital treatments that gave no relief.
He was recommended by friends to see a chiropractor who he thought was a quack.
I remember seeing him going for his first treatment in agony and coming home pain free.
He changed his opinion on chiropractors

Thank you, apart from physio and cortisone injections nothing else was mentioned.

The really hard part for me is not knowing factually how this has happened and if it can be prevented in the future.

Need to get to grips with the physio.

Cheers, Andy

toolsntat said:

Thank you, apart from physio and cortisone injections nothing else was mentioned.

The really hard part for me is not knowing factually how this has happened and if it can be prevented in the future.

Need to get to grips with the physio.

Cheers, Andy

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For me it was just lifting heavy things for years in the same repetitive manner, 1400 per shift, at 4 stone a time. For my wife I said it was no particular reason but I was wrong, we put it down to when she fell down a step coming out of a shop. It started a while after that.
I never recovered full movement on one even after the surgery, the surgeon said afterwards he couldnt get it to move a certain way whilst wrenching on it during the procedure. That one was very calcified and would not move above eye level.

I've had an impinged shoulder twice and frozen shoulder once.

The impinged shoulders were easily fixed with the cortisone injection. Impinged shoulder is where the nerves and tendons coming out of your shoulder joint under the collar bone get pinched and swell up. Because they're swollen, they get pinched. Classic vicious circle. The injection reduces the swelling giving it a chance to recover.

The frozen shoulder was much harder to recover from. The guy I saw basically told me that there's no cure other than time - around 18 months... The issue is that something happens to the floppy "sack" surrounding the shoulder joint making it stick to itself which is what limits mobility and causes the pain as you try to unstick it when moving your shoulder. The saline injection can help by "inflating" the sack so that it unsticks. However, until the sack goes back to normal and stops sticking, it will probably come back.

Cortisone injections probably won't fix the frozen shoulder in the long term, but the guy I saw gave me one anyway because I was in a lot of pain and about to start a 2-week rifle shooting world championships in South Africa! It did actually help me a lot but it still took almost 2 years for it to get back to normal.

Sorry!

Hopefully yours is just impinged (I think frozen shoulder is sometimes used universally) and an injection will sort it.