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My close friend who is on 5mg of pred for long term pmr has just had a cortisone injection for a painful shoulder and the specialist then said she was to have 8 sessions of physio. The young physio told her that she thought the unpleasant shoulder clicking was caused by the PMR?? How could this possibly be true? My son's shoulder clicks all the time but that's the result of a long term frozen shoulder.
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margaret01981 diana21296
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I was diagnosed with a frozen shoulder in late 2014 and went to several physio sessions which helped and I was ok. In late 2017, I came down with Pmr diagnosed Apr this year).
With Pmr, my frozen shoulder pain came back where I couldn’t lift with it and I had a hard time walking with weak leg muscles and other typical signs of Pmr. .. major fatigue, lost 20 lbs..
I often wonder if any way my frozen shoulder(popped a lot) was a precursor or early sign to My PMR. I also had inflammation in my fascia / back area( forgot the term) for a while! I am on 7.5 mg prednisone (tapering slow method). My shoulder no longer hurts. I also had chiropractic treatments that helped break up the knots which I now understand were Inflammation that I had in my back and shoulder earlier this year. I was working with doctors for Pmr diagnosis, which I suspected after researching my symptoms.
Tinapoly1 diana21296
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Hi Diana, I got PMR this past year which started in my pelvis,hips sockets,& back upper legs & it crippled me until I was diagnosed & put on steroids. When my rheumatologist told me to drop my dose from 7.5 to 5 mg. I couldn't walk in 2 days and it attacked my shoulders for the 1st time so I had to go back up to 7.5 mg but it is very different than when I had my clicking shoulders years ago which were caused by my labral tears in the socket of my shoulder and it would click and pop out of the socket a bit so I had it so bad that I had to have surgery. My PMR shoulder pain is nothing like the clicking shoulder labral tear problem. It is a horrible pain ,more on the outer connective tissue of the shoulder. I have also had torn rotator cuff & torn bicept tendon repair so I am all too familiar with the horrible pain from each and how different the PMR pain is from the others. I think my torn labral tears in the socket were diagnosed by an MRI with injections into the socket prior to the test. The clicking noise is caused by too much movement in the socket since the labrum is no longer holding the ball securely in the socket. I hope that helps.
diana21296 Tinapoly1
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EileenH diana21296
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Think the answer may lie in "the young physio"! Unless long term frozen shoulder has similar effects on the joint to PMR - which is possible. I'd want to know what the young physio thinks is the mechanism - and what they can offer.
BTW - has your son ever tried Bowen therapy? It is reputed to have a very good result in frozen shoulder and it if is going to work he will know in 3 sessions max - it isn't a long term committment like chiropractic often seems to be!
diana21296 EileenH
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margaret01981 diana21296
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