| An Adhesive Capsulitis, popularly known as Frozen | | | | stretching exercises help recover mobility and |
| Shoulder, is one of the longer lasting and most | | | | functionality, cutting down recovery times for a |
| debilitating shoulder disorders, but its recovery times | | | | disorder that can commonly last 1 to 2 year and |
| can be drastically cut down with specific frozen | | | | sometimes even 3 years. |
| shoulder physical therapy exercises aimed at | | | | An Adhesive Capsulitis develops in 3 phases, a |
| recovering range of motion gradually. | | | | freezing phase, a frozen phase and a thawing phase. |
| The most striking symptom of a Frozen Shoulder is | | | | The thawing phase alone can last up to 1 year, but can |
| not pain, which is common to many other shoulder | | | | be greatly reduced with the implementation of specific |
| disorders and injuries, but the inability to perform | | | | frozen shoulder physical therapy exercises. These |
| movements, especially over head, thus affecting daily | | | | exercises and stretching can vary in length and |
| tasks like reaching for high shelves, shampooing, | | | | duration, depending on phase and severity, and must |
| steering the car wheel and so on. Other conditions still | | | | be professionally devised by a specialist with |
| allow some mobility, however painful, but with a Frozen | | | | knowledge of the rotator cuff disorders and their |
| Shoulder the arm is locked by the adhesions restricting | | | | proper rehabilitation. |
| the space in the shoulder joint, thus blocking it. | | | | DIY physical therapy programs made up from samples |
| The adhesions are scarred tissues of the capsule | | | | taken here and there can cause more harm than |
| membrane surrounding the rotator cuff, hence the | | | | good, as the rotator cuff is a very complex |
| medical term Adhesive Capsulitis. The usual | | | | mechanism that requires laser targeted movements |
| treatments for a Frozen Shoulder are anti | | | | and stretching to recover it, if something has gone |
| inflammatories, cortisone injections, hot packs and | | | | wrong. It is a fact that this disorder affects thousands |
| ultrasounds. A radical approach is manipulation, the | | | | of people worldwide every year, affecting quality of |
| breaking of the adhesions by the surgeon under | | | | life for a time longer than it is necessary. |
| general anesthesia, but this is costly and mostly | | | | In fact, most people resign themselves to a |
| avoidable. | | | | dependency on anti inflammatories, or even resort to |
| Drugs and injections carry side effects, while hot | | | | cortisone injections and manipulations, when in fact a |
| packs and ultrasounds are only temporarily effective | | | | specific program of physical therapy exercises can |
| at best. The best and most effective treatment is a | | | | cut down recovery times to a fraction, eliminating pain |
| program of physical therapy exercises. Gradual | | | | and restoring quality of life naturally. |