Exercises for frozen shoulder

1. Scorpion climbing wall
Posture: facing or sideways toward the wall, both feet apart from the main, the affected side elbow joint slightly flexed, five fingers open to hold on the wall. Action: the affected side of the hand to slowly climb upward, so that the upper limb as far as possible to lift or abduct to the highest point, forcefully press the wall (mark on the wall), and then slowly climb back to the original place. Raise and abduct the upper limb 2~3 times each. Each time the height of the lift to exceed the previous time as the goal.
2. palms on the shoulders Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Tuina Department Lai Shuhua
Posture: standing or sitting position. Action: Hold the elbow of the affected limb with the hand of the healthy limb, let the palm of the affected limb hike to the maximum of the healthy side of the shoulder, and then shock the elbow of the affected limb with the hand of the healthy limb twice, and do it 2~3 times repeatedly.
3. finger combing
Posture: standing or sitting position. Action: the affected limb hand to support the elbow, so that the affected limb fingers through the forehead to touch the healthy side of the ear, and then comb to the occiput, repeatedly 2 ~ 3 times.
4. Grab the chair squatting method
Back to the backrest chair, the affected limb backhand grip the back of the chair slowly squat as far as possible, and then slowly get up.
5. Hands holding the neck method
Both shoulders abduct, hold the neck with both hands, and then do shoulder abduction and adduction activities, repeated several times.
6. Shoulder rotation method
Take the shoulder joint as the center, do small rapid inward rotation movement, and then do external rotation, alternately.
7. Auxiliary method of the healthy limb
Hold the affected finger in the hand of the able-bodied side and lift it up over the shoulder and behind the back.
8. apparatus exercises
① Gymnastic stick: In standing position, hold the stick with both hands in front, the distance between the hands depends on the degree of shoulder movement disorder, the lighter the shoulder width, the heavier the relative width. Do the front planks, left and right pendulum movements. Then do the left and right pendulum and upward movement behind the body. In addition, the bar can be placed diagonally behind the back, the affected hand holds the lower end, the healthy hand holds the upper end and does the pushing action diagonally outward. ② Ring: Through the pulley, the affected limb is pulled by the healthy limb to do abduction and forward flexion. ③ Shoulder joint activity device: a comprehensive training device for the shoulder, shoulder and wheel axis flat, adjust the handle until the upper limb is completely straight, and then make circular movements. ④ Tensioner: It mainly trains the shoulder related muscles. To sum up, there are various causes of shoulder joint, and it is often the overlap of several causes. For different causes, choose the corresponding rehabilitation treatment correctly in order to achieve the best results.
9. sandbag shaking method
Economic and practical, as long as you adhere to, very effective. a, parallel sandbag shaking: natural standing, hands each lifting a sandbag to the left and right, respectively, sandbags will fall when the swift turn homeopathic line to throw up, sandbags will fall to turn back to throw again. b, flexing arms lifting sandbags: sandbag straps wrapped around the hands and close to the sand surface in the bag, forward flat arms, flexing arms against the chest, and then put down. Can be repeated. c, around the head to throw sandbags: (1) from the front around the head. Stand with your feet apart, hold a bag in your right hand and cross your arms. The right hand will sandbag by the front chest thrown over the back of the left shoulder, around the head a week to recover, continuous throw. The main point is to throw the sandbag when the upper body slightly to the left, the right lower arm rubs the head, the right upper arm rubs the body and over, in order to fully pull the shoulder joint. Change hands as well. (2) from behind around the head. The main points of action are the same as above, except that when shaking the sandbag from the right shoulder backward over the head into a drawing circle action. Change hands also. d, sandbag around the leg: the right hand holding the mouth of the sandbag backward to the left, caught by the left hand in front of the hand back, the right hand repeat around. Change hands as well. Throw the sandbag backward and try to raise your hand upward when receiving the sandbag.
10. homeopathic guide method
The unreasonableness of traditional exercise methods in textbooks and many orthopedic monographs use high climbing walls, crossed swinging arm curls and extensions, and pulling ropes up and down behind the back as the conventional guide exercise methods for freezing the shoulder. However, because the soft tissues around the shoulder joint are “frozen”, the range of motion is extremely limited, and the patient’s self-protection is due to the fear of pain, the above actions are often difficult to implement. Even if it is done reluctantly, the effect is very little. Homeopathic Guided Massage is designed according to the activity characteristics and rules of the shoulder joint. In the implementation process, with the inertia of the active and passive activities of the limbs, homeopathic. The range of activity is from small to large. Step by step. It follows the direction of limb activity and avoids the muscle resistance of patients due to fear of pain. The whole treatment process is carried out in a natural and homeopathic way, and the patient can easily accept and actively cooperate with the treatment. From this point of view, the design of homeopathic guided massage should be said to be reasonable. (Department of Massage, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Lai Shuhua)