Frozen shoulder

Thanks contain, very hard to sleep or do anything, some people say ice some say heat very confusing! I'm having MUA for my frozen shoulder next week do you think it will help the shooting pains?

I ment thanks Cynthia

Having MUA next week I'll keep you posted 

Hi Alison, my frozen shoulder started soon after my decompression surgery about 4 months ago, had the shooting pains ever since, worse at night they are like electric shocks, I'm having MUA next week and hoping it will sort out frozen shoulder and shooting pains!!

Also Alison I've been to pt and hydro but stopped as it was too painful

Ya I have just been sticking to the pt 3 times a week and I have a dynasplint! Pt is crazy painful and after they get it all stretched out on the car ride home I can literally feel it tighten back up it feel like someone poured cement on it! I can't to the mua because I just had my bicep attached into the bone and they are afraid it will get ripped out! Let me know how it goes I hope the pains go away! I think there is a good chance because like I said I had them but after a few painful manipulations in pt they stopped!

I let you know how it goes Alison, hope you're feeling better! I'll update after MUA

Fingers crossed :-)

Thanks for reply frozen stiff, can you tell me the difference!! I'm having MUA next week but I'm agreeing with you and not sure if I need it??

Frozen shoulder is a condition passed from one generation to another. It came from the Vikings.  It produces a very tight and painfull capsule which gets better in time.  With shoulders it is either a capsular condition or something else. A capsular pattern is so much limitation of abduction, more limitation of lateral rotation, less limitation of medial rotation. Post surgery I would think the restriction would not be from the campsule but from the soft tissues that were cut and thus not a pattern of capsular restriction. That said perhaps the only way of stretching out the scar tissue is by manipulation. Hope you get a good result.

Thanks interesting!

I'm not sure I agree on any website or any ortho dealing in frozen shoulder it is very clear you can get it from surgery! I think there is only one person who believes the theory of Vikings? Anyway good luck to you and keep me posted!

I agree Alison

I had decompression surgery on my shoulder

It got badly inflamed so couldn't move it

Thats why my shoulder got frozen!

So to summarise

Operation - inflammation - frozen ;-)

Anne, hear is what I think. Firstly only one person in six who are diagnosed with FS actually have it. You can see why so many patients writing here are unhappy with their treatments and outcomes. FS is a disease in it'self. Decompresion of a shoulder does not according to anatomy and surgery articles involve the joint capsule where as we know the adhesion take place with FS. An operation on the shoulder causes scar tissue and this as it heals shrinks and the shoulder becomes immobile, If you believe this is a frozen shoulder then it will take several years to recover.

?Every other post operative joint in the body  is called pot op stiffness, why not the shoulder  

alison, I shall let you know about the Vikings in the next few days. In the meantime anyone who had or has a a non traumatic as they say idopathic frozen shoulder have other than blue eyes?

Viking thing is interesting and I actually do have blue eyes and fs came out of the blue (lol)

Curious do you have a medical background ?

I had a medical back ground of sorts, 63 years ago  a first aid course  in the medical corps as a  National Serviceman. Made me  find out everything I could about any condition I got since then, especially my shoulders, knees and half a dozen fractures. The more you know the better the treatment you will get.