Frozen Shoulder
Q. How is a stiff shoulder worked loose?
A.
Widening the range you can move, little by little, is the core of it. Treatment to reduce the pain goes together with exercise to regain movement.
📝 Detailed Answer
With frozen shoulder, settling the pain alone does not loosen the stiff shoulder. The process of regaining movement has to go with it.
- Acupuncture, pharmacopuncture and bee venom pharmacopuncture — address the sites of inflammation and pain
- Chuna manual therapy — not the shoulder alone; we look at the alignment of the neck and thoracic vertebrae alongside. If the shoulder is rolled forward, the range of movement itself is limited
- ICT electrotherapy — relaxes stiffened soft tissue and reduces pain
- Sling exercise — suspended in straps with the load of body weight taken off, the range of joint movement is widened and strength recovered. There is less strain when a shoulder that has gone unused through pain starts being used again
- Rolfing — releases stiffened fascia
Recovery takes time. Trying to gain a great deal at once can worsen the inflammation instead, so we widen a little at a time from what can be moved that day.
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Injun Eo
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