2006-10-05 07:34:47 · 11 answers · asked by patjoub 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
Physiotherapy is the best answer for relief of pain
2006-10-05 07:38:19 · answer #1 · answered by Dragon Empress 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had frozen shoulder that occured after a shoulder surgery (long story I wont go into)
I did PT, but the thing that really helped, almost instantly was a procedure called MUA, short for Manipulation Under Anesthesia... go ask your orhopedist if you are a candidate for this or not.
They put you to sleep & take your arm to the point where you naturally can go, then (like the other gentelman posted) the give it a little tug & break up the scar tissue & move it beyond where you are now into a normal range of motion.... when you are asleep the muscles are slack & relaxed & it's easy for this to happen... when you are awake & in physical therapy, it's painful & tight & will take forever, like beating a dead horse.
I got a cortisone shot in my shoulder while I was asleep so I wouldn't be sore when I woke up... and stared physical therapy again immediately the next day so I could keep the motin going.... it was like instant relief.
Good luck.
2006-10-05 13:14:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-27 06:07:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wife didn't do PT (physical therapy, aka "physical terrorism") correctly after a shoulder surgery, and hers locked up. The treatment was a second surgery where they basically twisted and pulled and yanked until it was free. The pain post-op for the second surgery was worse than the first, and that is an incredible statement.
AFter that, my wife still had to do PT for another 8 weeks. This time she was pushed past tears in her treatment, and it didn't lock up. She did finally get full motion back.
I notice that you're posting this in "pain and pain mgmt". If you've got a shoulder problem, the fixes are usually very painful. Unless you've got irreparable damage (ie, ligiments are all shot) then it does work, but the process is quite painful.
2006-10-05 07:45:54 · answer #4 · answered by geek49203 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had it quite bad. I was in tears and had to lie down to put a T shirt on. Couldn't lift my arm above waist level.
I had a cortisone jab and a week off work. It did take a year to really sort out, and even now (4 years later) it goes a bit stiff now and then. Especially if I forget not to lift weights above head level. I find exercise keeps it supple. The only time it gets painful is when I stop doing karate for a few weeks.
2006-10-05 07:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by ordiofile 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had that and it felt like someone shot me in the shoulder. It brought tears to my eyes just to move it! They tried injections into the shoulder - did nothing at all. Finally, after two months, they sent me to physical therapy and I went 2x a week for 4 weeks. It was the only thing that helped!
They had me slowly move my arm up and down on a pulley like thing that hung between a doorway. They told me if it hurts, then I was to stop. It took a while but I could eventually get my arm over my head. They massaged my shoulder and there was one spot they pushed on that simply took all the pain away - momentarily. We did other exercises and used a big elastic thing that you attach to a doorknob and then pull on it up and down moving your arm in small circles and then going larger as time goes by.
I still do the exercises when my shoulder starts to feel bad. It's been 10 years and I still have pain sometimes - not all like it was at the beginning. Its a slow slow recovery and if you over do it then you reinjure it and have to go all the way back.
Weird thing is that I didn't injure it to begin with!
Good luck to you, best thing is to go very slow!
2006-10-05 07:43:23 · answer #6 · answered by MissHazel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wife is currently plagued with it - had a cortizone jab a while back which helped but it is still there. Time is a healer they say - but 2 years ???
2006-10-05 07:38:21 · answer #7 · answered by MIKE D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my mum had one once went for physio at hospital long process but worked go to GP and get a referral
2006-10-05 10:00:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to go to physiotherapy and get exercises to do religiously.
2006-10-05 07:51:29 · answer #9 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, i had it and it is very painfull - unfortunaltely painkillers, using it as and when you can and time are the only things that cure it.
You have all my sympathy
2006-10-09 05:42:13 · answer #10 · answered by jaynie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋