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2014-03-13
The three stages and stretching exercises of frozen shoulder
Most of the patients who have frozen shoulders are often middle-aged people in their 40s or 50s. Patients will feel stiffness in the shoulder joints, unable to rotate or raise their hands, and sometimes feel dull pain. The patient thinks that the shoulders may be tired. As long as you avoid moving the affected area and rest, it will return to normal in a few days. However, after a few weeks, the patient not only feels pain when moving his shoulders, but also feels more pain when sleeping at night or affecting by weather changed.
Most of the causes of frozen shoulder are unknown, and shoulder joint pain usually develops spontaneously. It may be caused by adhesive capsulitis or tendinitis. As the synovial fluid in the synovial sac is reduced, the synovial sac are adhered, so that the joint capsule becomes swelling and thicker, so the shoulder mobility is restricted.
Three stages of frozen shoulder
1. Shoulder arthritis, gradual muscle stiffness
This stage is acute. Even when resting, patients will feel the shoulder pain, and also cannot pinpoint the location of the pain.
2. Stiffness Phase
At this time, the patient felt stiff shoulders and restricted movement in certain directions, but the pain eased.
3. Unfrozen stage
It may take months or even years for the shoulders to gradually get better.
Treatment
Anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs only help patients relieve shoulder pain, but they have no real therapeutic effect. Therefore, the patient has no improvement after taking the medicine for several weeks.
The use of electrotherapy, ice therapy, and corrective posture training through chiropractors can effectively relieve shoulder pain and increase the patient’s shoulder movement range. The treatment time may take three to four months. Due to the complicated causes of Frozen Shoulder, the patient cannot be cured in a short time.
Patients can practice some exercises at home to help their shoulders during treatment. First put an ice pack on your shoulders for about ten minutes, and then perform the following exercises:
