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Originally Posted by bjones6416
I spent almost all of the past year dealing with frozen shoulder on the right side. It has pretty much resolved (with a lot of pt visits) but now the left one is freezing, even more painfully than the first one did. Lots of different opinions around about treatment, but pt helped me get through the last one (and I really like my therapist) so I'm going that route with this one. Except today I came home from pt and burst into tears, because the session was soooo painful.  |
Oh. My sympathies. My left shoulder froze up in Summer 2012. After some attempts with a physiotherapist recommending exercises for me to do at home, finally resorted to an osteopath that my wife had previously used. I think some of the osteopathy ideas are a bit suspect, but this ostepath certainly knew all about shoulders and what was needed to relax the muscles. It took about six monthly visits to get me back in working order.
If your PT is doing direct manipulations, I suspect that is the best course. I found doing exercises myself didn't really help at all, but my osteopath worked on the muscles around my shoulder, easing each group in turn.