Home exercises for people with frozen shoulder

  For patients with frozen shoulder, shoulder mobility exercises are very important to help restore shoulder movement and also to avoid stiffness of the joint. When performing shoulder joint distraction exercises, it is important to be slow and gentle, doing a few seconds at the mobile end of the joint, then slowly releasing and repeating these distraction movements. It is important to avoid any painful sensations when stretching. All of these therapeutic movements described below still require the guidance of a professional rehabilitation physician and physical therapist, and then regular assessment of your degree of recovery. For more severe patients, who already have adhesions and contractures of the joint capsule and muscles, then the physical therapist will help you gradually improve these problems. There will be some soreness and pain in the early stages of treatment, but immediately after treatment you will generally feel that the joint has been loosened and the pain has Improvement, treatment is obviously severe pain is not advocated.  1, pendulum movement: bend close to 90 °, the healthy side of the hand to support the edge of the bed or the back of the chair, relying on the inertia of the body swinging back and forth, so that the shoulders relaxed natural sagging along with the swing, each time to do 2-3 minutes.  2, desktop arm sliding: sitting at the table, the affected side of the arm relaxed on the desktop, hands and desktop can be padded with some easy to slide cloth, natural bending, hands against the desktop passively slide forward, the end stay 5-10 seconds, and then the arm slowly back with the body.  3, supine position external rotation stretch: supine, the affected side of the elbow joint close to the body flexion 90 °, the healthy hand with crutches or sticks to help the affected hand to do external rotation stretch, maintain 5-10 seconds, slowly relax back.  4.Horizontal inward stretching: The healthy hand holds the affected elbow joint and gently stretches it, staying at the end for 5-10 seconds, then relaxes and comes back slowly.  5.Standing external rotation stretch: stand by the door or pull the handrail, bend the elbow 90° on the affected side against the body, then the body around the affected shoulder to do rotation, the end stay 5-10 seconds, then relax and come back slowly.  6.Corner external rotation stretching: stand facing the corner, relax your hands on both sides of the wall, then slowly let your body close to the corner and have the feeling of being stretched at the shoulder joint, the end stay for 15-20 seconds, then relax and come back slowly.  7.Improve the stretching method of internal rotation: Lie on the affected side, extend the elbow forward on the shoulder side, then the good hand helps to gradually put the affected hand slowly to the bed, the final end stays for 10-15 seconds, then relax and come back slowly.