Rotator Cuff is a Frozen Shoulder

[Gyakuto]

I saw a specialist physiotherapist on Wednesday. She was light years better than the young grunts I’d been seeing up to now, assessing me and deciding I had a supraspinatus rotator cuff injury, giving me the same exercises that made it worse. The specialist did a lot of tests and said, “You have a frozen shoulder…maybe a little tendinopathy in the infraspinatus (a ‘mixed presentation’) but it’s mainly a frozen shoulder. Can you come in tomorrow for a joint injection?”

I arrived the next day and endured a rather painful injection into the glenoid fossa. She suggested I wait a week for it to really kick in and begin 4 capsule stretching exercises she gave me . It ached all evening and at night too but today, it feels ‘different’. Gone are the spasms pain on reaching up high but there’s still a bit of discomfort and I won’t rush into the rehab exercises for another 6 days as she suggested.

I was so pleased with her diagnostic skills and treatment ( and yes she was attractive) I wrote a letter praising her, the receptionists and the service in general to the feedback department.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

I saw a specialist physiotherapist on Wednesday. She was light years better than the young grunts I’d been seeing up to now, assessing me and deciding I had a supraspinatus rotator cuff injury, giving me the same exercises that made it worse. The specialist did a lot of tests and said, “You have a frozen shoulder…maybe a little tendinopathy in the infraspinatus (a ‘mixed presentation’) but it’s mainly a frozen shoulder. Can you come in tomorrow for a joint injection?”

I arrived the next day and endured a rather painful injection into the glenoid fossa. She suggested I wait a week for it to really kick in and begin 4 capsule stretching exercises she gave me . It ached all evening and at night too but today, it feels ‘different’. Gone are the spasms pain on reaching up high but there’s still a bit of discomfort and I won’t rush into the rehab exercises for another 6 days as she suggested.

I was so pleased with her diagnostic skills and treatment ( and yes she was attractive) I wrote a letter praising her, the receptionists and the service in general to the feedback department.

I hope you get a positive result. Suffering from shoulder issues myself at the moment. No idea what's wrong. Was originally diagnosed with tendinitis, went through several months of PT, the pain went away but the range of motion did not return. Now several months later, both shoulders hurt all the time, even when not using them, and range of motion is ridiculously small. I cannot touch my back with either hand.

 

[Gyakuto]

I hope you get a positive result. Suffering from shoulder issues myself at the moment. No idea what's wrong. Was originally diagnosed with tendinitis, went through several months of PT, the pain went away but the range of motion did not return. Now several months later, both shoulders hurt all the time, even when not using them, and range of motion is ridiculously small. I cannot touch my back with either hand.

You’re diabetic (considerably) over 50 years old? It could be frozen shoulder. Are your movements mainly limited by pain or stiffness?

 

[Bill Mattocks]

You’re diabetic (considerably) over 50 years old? It could be frozen shoulder. Are your movements mainly limited by pain or stiffness?

Pain rather than stiffness.

 

[_Simon_]

EXCELLENT, great to hear

 

[Buka]

My right shoulder always hurts. Unfortunately, out here there’s only witch doctors. And it’s difficult finding eye of newt.

 

[O'Malley]

I saw a specialist physiotherapist on Wednesday. She was light years better than the young grunts I’d been seeing up to now, assessing me and deciding I had a supraspinatus rotator cuff injury, giving me the same exercises that made it worse. The specialist did a lot of tests and said, “You have a frozen shoulder…maybe a little tendinopathy in the infraspinatus (a ‘mixed presentation’) but it’s mainly a frozen shoulder. Can you come in tomorrow for a joint injection?”

I arrived the next day and endured a rather painful injection into the glenoid fossa. She suggested I wait a week for it to really kick in and begin 4 capsule stretching exercises she gave me . It ached all evening and at night too but today, it feels ‘different’. Gone are the spasms pain on reaching up high but there’s still a bit of discomfort and I won’t rush into the rehab exercises for another 6 days as she suggested.

I was so pleased with her diagnostic skills and treatment ( and yes she was attractive) I wrote a letter praising her, the receptionists and the service in general to the feedback department.

Can't the BFR bulge stuff help with your shoulder recovery?

My right shoulder always hurts. Unfortunately, out here there’s only witch doctors. And it’s difficult finding eye of newt.

- Doctor, can you help me with my shoulder pain?
- Yes, wiccan.

 

[Gyakuto]

Can't the BFR bulge stuff help with your shoulder recovery?

Frozen shoulder is caused by the inflammation and contraction of the capsule that encapsulates the joint. The capsule needs to be stretched out and inflammation controlled. BFR training seems to be effective for muscle hypertrophy although the general increase in growth hormone it causes might help with general healing. Also, the cuffs only fit up to the top of the arms/legs so the build up of metabolites won’t directly work on the shoulder but the systemic flood that occurs when the cuffs are release may have a diluted, general positive.

I’m really ‘enjoying’ BFR training on my off days. The deep muscle ache/soreness it produces is very…’satisfying’. I’m don't think I’m doing it enough as I struggle to fit it into my training schedule; I don’t want it to interfere with the normal ‘heavy lifting’ I do at the gym.

- Doctor, can you help me with my shoulder pain?
- Yes, wiccan.

The design that allows the shoulder joint’s huge range of motion is also it’s downfall. Shoulder issues are so common too and my Japanese friends tell me they even have an expression for it goju/rokuju kata just or ‘50/60 [year old] shoulder’!