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I was diagnosed with a frozen shoulder 10 days ago, and advised to rest it as much as possible, I am a professional dog walker so am not able to work at the moment, this is my 2nd week off, just wondering how long I can expect to be off work?
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clara38857 maxine19302
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In my opinion and experience, time, along with the exercises prescribed by my Orthopedic surgeon and PT, are what has helped me on my journey with frozen shoulder. After suffering for about 4 months, I am well into the thawing phase and although my full range of motion hasn't returned, it's so much better than it was, thank God.
Try not to be discouraged. Whatever you decide, remember that patience is virtue.
Good luck! Chin up! It WILL get better in time.
IceCoffee maxine19302
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I have passed the 9 month mark since my frozen shoulder began. I started with some PT which didn't seem to help and hurt like hell. Then I did home exercises (strengthening with bands and range of motion movements) and then nothing. Eventually it started getting better. ... even while doing nothing. I couldn't sleep on my arm and it ached all the time initially. This pain is like nothing I have experienced before. Sleep was DIFFICULT! I am able to sleep on my arm now. ROM is better....just certain movements are restricted. Hoping for eventual full recovery. Like everyone says, it takes time.
maxine19302 IceCoffee
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Thank you, no there really is no pain like it, and only someone who has had it can understand, I spent every day last week in tears because it hurt so much! Thankfully the pain is easing a little and I'm managing to sleep 🙏
frozen-solution maxine19302
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You have two choices: you can either wait it out, which will take several months (I am not exaggerating), because you will take several weeks to go through the painful freezing stage, then several weeks through the frozen stage, where it doesn't hurt much anymore but your range of motion is still lacking and eventually you will end up in the thawing stage, where you will be able to gain back your old movement radius. You can take painkillers, run to doctors and physiotherapists of all kinds and nothing will change much.
Or you can read the book "Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection" written by a regular medical doctor called Dr. Sarno and accept what he writes about back pain (which is 100% applicable to frozen shoulder, I speak from personal experience. He evens mentions one example of a frozen shoulder in his book). And accept what he has to say. Which will make things a log shorter and less painful.
I got this recommendation far too late and have spent many months in intense pain, which I could have avoided. For me that book was a life saver, because nobody else could help me and I had developed frozen shoulder on both shoulders and even went through surgery. Which helped short term, but when the operated shoulder started to re-freeze, I was getting desperate. Spare yourself the pain and learn from my mistake. Or don't, it's your choice. The book costs only a few bucks and reading time is a few hours. What do you have to lose?
P.S.: I recommended that book to 12 friends and acquaintances in the meantime and they all got pain free. Except one. He decided to put the book on the shelf and go to his physiotherapist instead...
IceCoffee frozen-solution
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I re-read Dr. Sarno's books and watched his youtube videos after several months into my pain because I had read it before many years ago and it made alot of sense. I always liked the part where he said to talk to your pain like it was a child throwing a tantrum. hahaha! Who knows, maybe that's why my pain subsided. I gave that "child" a piece of my mind! Can't hurt to read a book.