Myth 1: The harder you work out, the better Most patients believe that the harder you work out, the better, and that if you don’t practice without exercise, the affected shoulder will develop to the point where you can’t move. The result is that the more you exercise, the heavier the pain. Li Guodong, Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital Myth 2: No need for treatment, it can heal itself Some patients think that when they have frozen shoulder pain, they should not move and rest for a while. It is true that some patients can heal on their own. However, most of the patients have shoulder pain that gets worse and worse. Myth 3: Relying too much on painkillers Most patients who have had acute shoulder pain will choose to post ointment, rub bruising wine, or take painkillers. However, painkillers or creams only play the role of local temporary relief or control of pain, but the root cause of pain is not treated, and painkillers only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, but will cause chronic pain. Myth 4: Massage = treatment Professional massage can really play a certain role in the relief, but does not solve the root of the pain. Moreover, inappropriate and unprofessional techniques are likely to aggravate the condition, or even cause injury. Misconception five: see the good to accept most patients as long as the pain is slightly relieved, will immediately stop physical rehabilitation medical treatment or drug therapy. I do not know, if you do not follow medical advice, the inflammation or injury at the lesion may only partially recovered, it is easy to relapse in the short term. Myth 6: You can recover with exercise Activity therapy is important. In fact, only patients with milder cases of frozen shoulder may be able to relieve pain without medical treatment, but the intervention of a doctor must be able to reduce symptoms and shorten the course of the disease. There is a simple exercise you can do to determine if your shoulder pain is “frozen shoulder”. Keep your elbows close to your waist, bend your elbows 90 degrees, turn your thumbs up towards the sky, and make a fist with your remaining four fingers; while keeping your elbows close to your waist and bending your elbows 90 degrees, separate your forearms on both sides and make the distance bigger, just like doing a puller. If you are unable to perform this test on your own, you can hold the above position by yourself and ask a family member to help you check whether the painful shoulder can be moved outward and pulled apart. If the affected shoulder can move outward, most of them are not “frozen shoulder”; if the affected shoulder moves outward significantly less than the healthy side, most of them are “frozen shoulder”.