encapsulitis - Frozen Shoulder!!

[ChrisL 18]

Anyone on here ever had one?

 

Started Wednesday night and has got steadily more painfull since. Now i cant even move my right arm.

 

Supposed to be at a classic car run on Sunday but looks like I'm going to have to get the wife to clean the rado tomorrow and even do the driving!

[sexybourbon 0]

Get to hospital mate they will sort you out ! Iv been struggling with my hand for nearly a year now ! Iv had about four x rays , an operation to clear scar tissue and now its still the same got to go back and have an mri scan on it and no doubt , frozen shoulder is a hard arse thing to get rid of my brother in law has it and he really struggles with it but apparantely it can dissapear and go as fast as it arrives

[Wullie 1]

I've had the misfortune of having it, in both shoulders at the same time. Not nice, extremely painful and the restriction of movement really affects you. Get to the quack ASAP and get a proper diagnosis. I ended up having fortnightly cortisone injections and twice weekly physiotherapy sessions. Every day I did my own physio exercises to increase mobility and ease of movement. It got that bad mainly because the doctor I had at the time took too long to start an effective treatment and was further complicated in that I had at that time, existing shoulder damage due to being slightly blown up while attending a fire. It took about 18 months before I had moderate pain free movement back.

 

Advice? Get youself to the quack, push for a specialist and keep moving it, even if it hurts. The more you allow movement to become restricted the worse it gets and the longer it will take to clear up. Hopefully it's just inflammation and will clear up reasonably quickly.

[ChrisL 18]

Cheers guys, went to the docs yesterday and he gave me 2 options, 1 - injection and 2 - strong painkillers and excersise. The thought of a needle made me panic so I went for strong painkillers and im trying to keep it moving.

 

I couldn't imagine how painfull it would be in both shoulders though!! and good luck with the hand Matt, i hope you get sorted soon.

[STORM 2 0]

Its called Adhesive Capsulitis. Wullie has recommended a sensible course of action, but I'm afraid you may be waiting for a physiotherapist for a while, so it may be worthwhile commencing your own physio exercises whilst taking ant-infammatories and analgesics.

 

Go here for the correct information :

 

http://www.noc.nhs.uk/shoulderandelbow/information/documents/A4FrozenShoulderAppendix3.pdf

 

Your symptoms may well resolve without surgical intervention, however, if they become recurrent then a manipulation under anaesthetic may be in order (basically just yanking your shoulder to bits whilst you are unable to respond). They make a lovely satisfying cracking noise as the shoulder capsule is released!

 

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By the way, all those exercises can be slightly modified to ones working on the Corrado. For example lying on your back and trying to get to the bloody coolant drain plug....

[Wullie 1]

The injections are painful for a while but give you reasonably pain free movement for several days. This gives you the chance to really work at keeping movement in the joint. Most hospitals will stand you next to a wall mounted wheel and get you to stand there sideways on turning it for an hour. I worked out my own routines to push myself that bit further. I took the three main arm movements, forward, sideways and backward, measured the maximum movement I had on a wall then got a rope and pulley and made the rope a little shorter than it should be, stuck my foot in one end and held on to the other. That way you were pulling your arm a bit further than you could without assistance. Changed the rope length for the other arm movements. Hurt a bit but saved a lot of recovery time later down the line. Due to other damage my recovery took a bit longer than usual so don't despair. And don't skip the physio.