impingment of shoulder

I was told never to stretch or do exercises to pain. If there is pain back off a little! Very hard when there is pain all the time!!

Use ice or heat inbetween and cut down on repetitions! Hope this phase passes soon!

Hi, i have had a right FS for 12 months and now the left shoulder is freezing and my specialist has said all along, don't do anything that hurts because pain is not going to assist tne healing process. With 2 FS pain is all I have these days

 

Hi Alison

I'm so sorry to hear that the hydrodilatation didn't work as well as you were perhaps led to believe. I can only tell you what every instinct in my body tells me and that's to wait for the thaw. Do absolutely nothing. It's been 9 months and I can finally get a good nights sleep. It only throbs every now and again when it's cold. I still have limited movement from the scar tissue, but pain is definitely 70% less. I have stiffish pillow that I hug and then turn onto my side with my FS shoulder over the top of the pillow. I sleep really well in this position. It's taken months, but I'd say that the last 2 months I've seen a significant improvement. I'm still paranoid that my right arm is going to go the same way and I get pains in it. Not sure if it's overuse of the arm. So just praying it's just nothing. I've decided from very early on in my diagnosis to not go for any physio or any injections. I was on meds for a short while and went off them. I toughed it out. It's been hell. But I think I'm in the end phase of frozen or the beginning phase of thaw. I know the pain will go and then if still limited movement, which I think will be the case, then I'll go for an MUA. So, I've not pushed myself in any way other than household chores within the painfree zone of what my arm can handle. As soon as I feel any pain I back off from what I'm doing. I think any aggravation of the shoulder joint while it's still inflamed is going just put you back. I know that I'm improving and that's all I'm interested in. I've come to accept my limited movement and loving the reduction in pain. I've also not put myself through any torture, which I think is not good for inflammation as it raises cortisol levels that encourage inflammation. So, I feel that the anxiety and stress put on you when going to physio is definitely not good for your FS. Ultimately time will tell whether I'm doing the right thing just going through the phases of FS. I hope my words encourage you to just pull back a bit and let your body heal itself. In addition, I've researched what causes inflammation in body and have as of 2 weeks now cut sugar out of my diet. Taking omega 3 capsules and really tracking an active approach to try and reduce my inflammation naturally. I've yet to add tumeric and ginger to my diet as they too apparently fight inflammation. I hope your arm gets back on track soon. One arm hug xxx

Hi Alison,  I have been on other threads as my own story of diagnosis and treatment unfolds and reading other threads - finally I had an MRI and got the results for my shoulder problems yesterday 18 months after injuring it.   It seems I had an impingment described as overgrowth of bone rubbing on the muscle causing pain and this was following a fall.  Physio kept getting me to work at it and it was getting worse then a second fall sent it into completely frozen shoulder.  I asked about exercise while I am on the 3 month waiting list for surgery to relieve the impingment and frozen shoulder MUA.  He said it is difficult because for the impingement you should rest the shoulder and not do very much with it as it is obvious it will make it worse (this makes sense if you consider the physical logistics) and that it is almost certain that the impingment went on to trigger the frozen shoulder and advice for that is to keep moving it gently although he said that as an inflamation disease it will run its course no matter what you do and surgery is more about pain relief than anything and sometimes can speed the process up but not always. He also said that after the surgery for 6 weeks I will be fine and then it will likely start to freeze again but not as restricting this time, without the same pain and with no impingement pain so can get the movement going with gentle physio at that point. If you take pain killers you can also push yourself more than you would because you dont feel that you are damaging it more. I have found that by resting my shoulder as much as possible is actually helping more and I need less pain relief.  He said that during the waiting time my frozen shoulder might start to improve in any event and wont have to do the MUA but still as risk that the surgery for the impingement may trigger it again.  Dammed if you do and dammed if you don't!! My consultant has not recommended hydrodilation possibly simply because he does not do it so I have been following some other threads to see how well this works.  I have met people in daily life who had had FS had oprations and been immediately good after and no further problems so I think that on this forum we are of course meeting with others who are not getting the same instant results. I don't know how I can get through another 3 months of pain like this, life is almost at a stand still  hope you feel better soon x