In the tui na clinic, we treat many patients with frozen shoulder every day. Some patients ask, “Doctor, I used to have frozen shoulder, so I went to the park to find a sturdy tree branch, and practiced “lifting and stirring” with both hands for a few months, and I got better. Some other patients said, “I also exercise, but the more I practice, the worse it gets, and recently I can’t lift it up at all, why is that? Why?”. Many people think that frozen shoulder can be cured through exercise, for example, “frozen shoulder” can be improved or even cured through functional exercise. However, many shoulder injuries, such as rotator cuff injuries and glenoid labral injuries, become more serious the more you exercise. Today we will talk to you about whether you should exercise for frozen shoulder. Most patients often complain of waking up in the middle of the night with pain and cannot sleep, especially when lying on the affected side. The movement of the shoulder joint can be limited in all directions, especially abduction, supination, internal and external rotation, especially combing hair, dressing, washing face, forking the waist and other movements are difficult to complete. In this case, our recommended recipe is “Tui Na with physical therapy, frozen shoulder with exercises”. In the past articles, the editor also recommended the prevention and treatment of frozen shoulder, and Prof. Fu Guobing had a number of vivid explanations in the Health Hall program, so you can review it. The rotator cuff injury is the most common soft tissue injury of the shoulder joint. Once the rotator cuff is injured, it needs to be braked and exercise is strictly prohibited. Because the rotator cuff has a certain tension, if rotator cuff injury causes a small tear, it is difficult for this small tear to heal itself due to the continuous tension, and in this case, still insist on the stretching exercise of the rotator joint, it will inevitably lead to the increasing size of the tear, which will eventually lead to a huge or difficult to repair rotator cuff tear. 3. Here is a tip for identification: 1. If your shoulder joint is impaired in both active and passive activities (meaning not only you can’t lift it yourself, but you can’t lift it when someone else is holding your arm), then it may be a frozen shoulder; 2. If your active activities are impaired and passive activities are basically normal (meaning you can’t lift it yourself, but you can lift it when someone else is holding your arm), then it may be a Rotator cuff injury. Of course, there are also rotator cuff injuries combined with frozen shoulder, and there are far more than these two kinds of shoulder diseases, so this trick is not absolute. Warm tips: 1. For patients with non-freezing shoulder, it is recommended to go to the hospital to confirm the diagnosis through the doctor’s examination and MRI. 2. If the shoulder joint pain or functional limitation does not improve for more than 1 month, or if it worsens instead, come to the hospital for examination in time.