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.

I had a steroid injection and am receiving physio once a week. My question is what is the time scale for this to heal or be pain free? I still haven’t got full range of movement and still in pain, I know each case is different but there must be an average time?

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.

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