Anyone ever been diagnosed with a “frozen shoulder?”
They gave me a cortisone shot and then recommended physical therapy, which I will do.
Any first hand advice/knowledge on if this is the right route to go? How long was it before it got better?
No, but I had labrum surgery in HS, and subsequently a shoulder replacement 5 years ago. Best thing I ever did!
Sounds like you need to get out fishing more to keep in limber. LOL
Anyone ever been diagnosed with a “frozen shoulder?”
They gave me a cortisone shot and then recommended physical therapy, which I will do.
Any first hand advice/knowledge on if this is the right route to go? How long was it before it got better?
Several years ago, I dumped a motorcycle while off roading in the mountains of Colorado. Jammed up left arm pretty hard but nothing was broken. Sore as heck and just laid off using it as much as I could, thinking it would get better. Within about a month of very little use and movement, I had lost a good share of my “range of motion”. I could not raise my arm enough to extend it out the truck window and get my mail.
Yes, doctor prescribed cortisone shot and physical therapy. The physical therapy stated out being 3 times a week, then 2 times a week until I had recovered full range of motion. The shot is not enough, do not neglect the PT. Think it took about two months until full recovery for me.
A co-worker had frozen shoulder. She tried the shots, which helped, but ended up getting surgery. She was miserable for quite some time after surgery, but was better after recovery time.
I know a woman who had a torn rotator cuff and that led to her having a frozen shoulder. She’s had surgery but it’s apparently a long and painful road to recovery with PT.
I have partial thickness tears of both rotator cups – baseball/football/hockey as a youth was what the orthopedist called the “trifecta”. Ended up with frozen shoulder on each side about two years apart. Cortisone helped a little, PT was unpleasant but successful. Got me back to being able to pitch batting practice for my son’s baseball team.
Go see the ortho, get the PT prescription and do the work. It hurts but you likely will recover full range of motion and get rid of the pain. Ten years later I still stretch the shoulders each day to prevent a recurrence. Don’t want to go through that again.
Do the shot and be religious about the therapy and icing after therapy.
It is a long extremely slow therapy, but it will get better.
The shot is just for immediate relief but it wont last and you’ll build a tolerance for it so subsequent shots wont be as effective. The key is to stay on-top of PT and be patient with it.
Acupuncture helped mine a lot.
No, but I had labrum surgery in HS, and subsequently a shoulder replacement 5 years ago. Best thing I ever did!
On my 3rd Labrum surgery…2 full on and one orthoscopic…terrible to deal with! Luckily it’s not a big deal until you do something above your head…
I had frozen shoulder and it was brutal. There was plenty of pain, but the loss of most of my range of motion was the worst thing. I couldn’t get a wallet out of my back pocket. I got a cortisone shot that helped a lot, and after about a year it cleared up and all was good. I just wish I wouldn’t have waited so long to get the shot in the first place.
Ten years ago I had frozen shoulder after an accident and surgery for my rotator cuff. Worst pain I have ever experienced. I went through over a year of physical therapy. People twice my age were in and out of therapy during my time there. Eventually I had a chiropractor that helped with my range and I was much better in a short amount of time.
The longer you do nothing the worse it will get and that is why mine got so bad.
I developed frozen shoulder (adhesive encapsulitis or something like that) back in 2014, the year I retired. I would have bet my buddy’s boat that I had a torn rotator or torn something else, but after they scanned my shoulder, it showed an area of inflammation but no other damage. Couldn’t reach my wallet in back pocket, or grab a pen from my shirt pocket…unbelievable. Had to do normal simple tasks left handed for weeks. Anyway, eventually went to physical therapy for 6 weeks, twice a week, and though it was painful when she progressively extended the motion at the sessions, and gave me shoulder exercises to do daily (bands and various stretches), I saw progress pretty quickly and back to normal in about 12 weeks. I kept up the daily home therapy for 4 months or so, and still do it now, but only one or two times a week. Didn’t have any shots though.
Good luck with your therapy…stick with it, and you should be able to lick it.
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