| Adhesive Capsulitis is the medical term for a condition | | | | the joint causes scar tissue to form in the joint. This |
| known as frozen shoulder syndrome. A patient with | | | | scar tissue takes up room that is normally allocated for |
| frozen shoulder will find that they are unable to move | | | | a fluid cushion and can jamb the joint, making it hard to |
| the affected arm. This paralysis is normally temporary | | | | move. |
| and can result from stiffness caused by the patient | | | | The incidences of frozen shoulder amongst diabetics is |
| being reluctant to move their arm because of pain in | | | | statistically high. This is because glucose molecules are |
| the shoulder. | | | | known to attach themselves to the collagen fibers in |
| This reluctance to move the arm will eventually lead to | | | | the shoulder joint, resulting in stiffness. The odds |
| stiffness in the shoulder. Frozen shoulder syndrome | | | | significantly increase for a diabetic who is insulin |
| usually presents itself in one shoulder only; however, | | | | dependent. |
| occasionally a patient will report that they are having | | | | Another indicator for frozen shoulder syndrome may |
| the same symptoms in both shoulders. | | | | be poor posture. It is now known to be true that poor |
| There are two ways to classify it: primary and | | | | posture will cause the ligaments in the shoulder to |
| secondary. Primary frozen shoulder syndrome occurs | | | | become shorter. When they get shorter, mobility will |
| when the patient develops stiffness and pain in the | | | | become difficult. |
| shoulder joint with no warning or apparent cause. | | | | If the patient experiences immobility in the arm or |
| Secondary frozen shoulder has a history of some | | | | shoulder joint for any period of time, stiffness will result |
| type of injury, cardiac surgery or trauma. | | | | and frozen shoulder syndrome can develop. There is |
| Physicians feel that there is still some mystery | | | | no way to cure frozen shoulder; it is only possible to |
| surrounding frozen shoulder syndrome. The most | | | | relieve the symptoms to the greatest degree possible. |
| common theory prescribed to is that inflammation in | | | | |