This particular patient that I am educating suffered from adhesive capsulitis, otherwise known as frozen shoulder. She had been dealing with this for years and experienced a considerable amount of relief after a few appointments where I drove home a couple of important concepts.

But what is it?

Firstly, this condition typically affects middle aged women but factors like diabetes or a recent shoulder injury can also increase the risk of developing the condition as well.

Treatment usually involves taking the patient as hard as they can go within a range of tolerance. This means working on the patient’s abilities and the ranges and strength levels that they can tolerate without their pain levels exceeding a level in which they cannot perform the exercise with correct form.

As much as people think that PT is pain and torture, in this case it really IS NOT.

Frozen shoulder sometimes takes its own course (1-3 years sometimes). If gone untreated and unmanaged can lead to long-term shoulder restriction, so it is important to get your frozen shoulder checked out as soon as possible and to continue a program that increases its range of movement before things get too sticky!

Consider calling us at PhysioLogix and we can get you feeling less frozen and more cool (insert sunglasses emoji here).

Also, check out my Instagram post addressing this here. I share tons of great information regularly about ALL topics :)

Shoulder pain yourself? DM me and we can get to the root of your problem today!