Frozen shoulder : A profound experience

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Having had this condition for almost three months now, here I sit, shoulder throbbing away as usual, unable to lift my arm, the unwilling recipient of x rays, physiotherapy, massage, acupuncture, cortisone injections and so on. In an imposed contemplative state, I reflect on the mysteries of the human body: on how my own body can one day just decide to shut down an entire shoulder and debilitate me with such a fell swoop. So I sit and I ponder and I reflect ( been doing a lot of that lately) and I ruminate over my own changing perspective as I move into my 'middle age', and if I didn't know better I could be lulled into some panglossian moment of viewing this whole frozen shoulder epoch as that from which I will ultimately emerge changed for the better.

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    Hello, I'm 9 months in. I know how it feels. The pain was incredible the first 3 months. Sleeping on my 'other' side with a pillow under my sore arm helped me to sleep at night. I had seen a physical therapist for 3 times, but I stopped. I never took shots. Medicine did not help me. The only healers have been God's help and time.

    Hopefully, by your 4th month, the throbbing will subside. After 4 months, I was able to move about pain free even though my arm still has limited motion. I then began low impact exercising so that when my arm comes back, I will have kept muscle tone. I do some routine arm motions and I go for a brisk walk. I already can do a few things that I couldn't do before like reach across my body and reach for a few objects on a shelf, and write. I still have a ways to go, but I believe the same as you that when I emerge from this debilitating circumstance, I want to be the better for it. Also, having a positive outlook is good for rehabilitation, too. In my 4th month, I was able to think positive again.

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    apart from checking ones mineral and tissue salt levels, in all of your list-i don't see chiropractor in it, so much of body dysfunction comes from our body being out of alignment usually the neck is the culprit with all it's referred pain, however not just any chiropractor and not a mctimoney or osteopath a good old fashioned manipulator preferably with a neck adjusting table--try to find a chiropractors chiropractor if not available, perhaps try this old remedy. lie flat on a carpet-have a straight back chair in front of you facing sideways, now riggle your arse right up to the chair lifting your legs so they go across the seat keeping your butt up against the chair legs,roll a small towel to put under the crook of your neck, so you are comfortable & lie there for about 20 minutes

    sorry for the complicated directions should look something like this.. back lying flat-butt against chair-knees up-legs across chair.

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    ok well that design illustration didn't work-it reproduced disjointed sorry about that, i'm sure you got it any way sky
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    Thank you for responding to my predicament. It's been such an odd time, being taken out of my normal working world. I feel like some alien visitor hovering unseen above the real world, observing boggle - eyed through my glass dome the 'goings-on' of the humans. My grandmother would always refer to my tendency to over analyse situations as 'going up a flea's arse'. I suppose you can always trust your grandmother to say it how it is.

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