Best treatment for frozen shoulder

Have you felt pain around your shoulders and neck recently? Many elderly people may feel it more obviously, but now many young people are also suffering from this disease. Because you maintain the same posture for a long time and don't have enough time to exercise yourself, you will develop shoulder periarthritis over time. When you occasionally raise your arm, you will find unbearable pain around your shoulder. This is the result of long-term strain. If you pay attention to it in the early stage, such consequences will not occur.

Many patients with periarthritis of the shoulder want to recover as soon as possible because the feeling of being sick is so uncomfortable and they feel uncomfortable no matter where they are. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place. If you pay more attention to your health when you are young, such serious consequences will not occur. Some people who rely on physical labor often do heavy work in order to earn more money, and they will suffer from periarthritis of the shoulder when they get older.

People who often do housework are prone to periarthritis of the shoulder because their entire arms, including the shoulders, are constantly moving, and often overexerting themselves. If you stay in this state of tension and fatigue for a long time, your shoulders will easily be injured. Therefore, we must pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and the amount of work each time should be moderate, so as not to put too much pressure on the shoulders.

Whether you are writing at a desk, operating a computer, or bending down to do handicrafts, you must pay attention to the correct posture. If the posture is incorrect, our body will be in a very awkward state. Over time, many problems will arise, such as lumbar disc herniation, loss of physiological curvature, and so on, as well as periarthritis of the shoulder. So no matter what you do, you must adopt a posture that is most comfortable and appropriate for your body, so that you can effectively prevent the occurrence of diseases such as periarthritis of the shoulder.

Do not pull your own or others' arms hard or swing them around. To prevent shoulder strain. If you are accidentally injured, go to the hospital for regular treatment without delay.

In the early stages of frozen shoulder, you can go to the physical therapy department of the hospital for massage therapy and use infrared light.

When the pain is obvious and confined to a certain area, local injections and hormone injections can be used to relieve the pain. Commonly used drugs include prednisone.

If you don't have frozen shoulder, you should control the amount of activity. If you have frozen shoulder, you should encourage activity. Under the premise that it does not cause shoulder pain, you should insist on doing shoulder exercises every day, such as reaching as high as possible, putting your hands behind your back and trying to hook your fingers, etc., trying to make the inside and outside of the adhesion joints move.

The steps and methods of self-massage are:

1. Use the thumb or palm of the healthy side to massage the front and outer side of the affected shoulder joint from top to bottom for 1 to 2 minutes. You can press the local painful point with your thumb for a while.

2. Use the pads of the 2nd to 4th fingers of the healthy hand to massage various parts of the back of the shoulder joint for 1 to 2 minutes. If you find any local pain points during the massage, you can also press them for a while with your fingers.

3. Use the healthy thumb and other fingers to knead the upper arm muscles of the affected upper limb from bottom to top to the shoulder for 1 to 2 minutes.

4. You can also use the above method to massage when the affected shoulder is in functional positions such as abduction, while moving the shoulder joint in all directions.

5. Finally, use your palms to rub from top to bottom for 1 to 2 minutes. For areas on the back of the shoulder that cannot be massaged, you can use patting method for treatment.

Self-massage can be performed once a day for 1 to 2 months, which will have better effects.

The above provides some self-treatment methods. Don’t harm your health just to make a few more money. It’s not worth it. If symptoms of frozen shoulder appear, you must go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment first to determine whether it is frozen shoulder. Do not buy some plasters at will. Use medicines under the advice and guidance of a doctor.