Frozen Shoulder Symptoms, Treatments | Periarthritis of Shoulder
Question: I have been diagnosed with calcific tendonitis of the shoulder. I went to hospital in January due to severe pain but was sent home with painkillers and no diagnosis was given. I have had pain since then which flared up again in June. I again went to the hospital as I had no sleep for two nights and was given this diagnosis.
Answer:
From the symptoms that you have detailed, you could be suffering from a frozen shoulder or peri-arthritis of the shoulder.
Frozen Shoulder Symptoms:
- In this condition, the shoulder joint becomes painful and stiff.
- The cause for this inflammatory disease is not known.
- There occurs a loss of resilience of the joint capsule, possibly due to adhesion formation.
- In the early stages of the disease, the pain is worse at night and the movements are slightly restricted.
- Later, there is pain at all times and all the shoulder movements get severely limited
- There could possibly be a history of trauma.
Treatment for frozen shoulder:
- Peri-arthritis is a self-limiting disease.
- It takes 6-9 months for the inflammation to subside, but it leaves behind a stiff but painless shoulder.
- Hence, the aim of management of such a case is to prevent or minimize the stiffness by continued shoulder movements and exercises.
- Physiotherapy is an absolute necessity
- Pain killers have a palliative effect and give only temporary relief.
- The injection that you have taken would be an intra-articular hydrocortisone injection which speeds up cure.
- Hot fomentation affords relief from frozen shoulder.
- Rhus tox 30, a homoeopathy medicine, works beautifully on joint complaints. It strengthens the tendons, ligaments and capsule, and reduces pain in shoulder and stiffness.
- Black sesame seeds relieve pain to a great extent. A spoonful should be soaked overnight and consumed the next day along with the water.
- Speedy and long term benefits are seen through reflexology and acupuncture.
August 20, 2009 | Filed Under
Bone Joint Muscle Disorders
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I have been diagnosied for the right hand shoulder pain as periarthritis. Initially I underwent IFT for 9 days and after a gap of 20 days I had wax bath for 9 days. Now I am left with much pain in the night as the DR suggest not to use pain killer medicines at all. I find little to very little improvement. where I again consulted another ortho DR who suggest that under anesthesia condition he can give one injection and set this right by about 25% to enable me to do more free exercises. I am doing exercises at home as advised by my physiotherapist. Now I am suffering for the past 3/4 months. What shall I do? Should I take the injection or simple exercise at home though it may long time to cure?
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Sam Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 am
The injections that your doctor may recommend will be usually either pain killers or muscle relaxants. They may provide you temporary relief, but you must get expert advice before your decide to take it. Exercises are safer to treat your frozen shoulder condition although they do not work instantly.
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