Frozen shoulder is a common disease caused by injury or degenerative lesions in the tendons surrounding the shoulder joint, resulting in pain and dysfunction of the shoulder joint. The disease is more common in women than in men. The disease is more common in women than in men, and mostly develops on one side of the shoulder joint, but rarely on both sides at the same time. The disease has a tendency to heal itself, and the normal range of shoulder movement can be gradually restored naturally, but this process often takes a few months or a year or so, if you get good early treatment, the function is often restored quickly.
Clinical manifestations
1. The shoulder pain is paroxysmal in the early stage, often triggered by weather changes or exertion, and then gradually develops into persistent pain, which is widespread and gradually worsens, with lightness during the day and heaviness at night. Most patients will wake up with pain or affect their sleep due to shoulder pain at night, and cannot lie on the affected side. When the shoulder is hit or stretched, it can cause severe pain.
2. The shoulder joint function is widely restricted. The upper limb on the affected side is often internally rotated, and active and passive activities are limited. In severe cases, the function of the elbow joint is also limited, and the hand cannot touch the shoulder when the elbow is flexed.
Self-tui-na]
1.Press the whole palm of the healthy side of the hand on the affected shoulder for 100 times in a clockwise direction, so that the deep part is hot.
2.Use the thumb and middle finger of the healthy hand to rub the front of the shoulder, shoulder k and shoulder chastity for 100 times, to have obvious soreness and swelling.
3.Use the palm of the healthy hand to rub the affected shoulder up and down and back and forth, to the extent of heat.
4.Use the palm of the healthy side to hold the elbow of the affected limb and transport the shoulder in the backward and forward direction for 8 times.
5.Place the affected limb behind the back and flex the elbow, and hold the wrist of the affected limb from behind with the healthy hand for 8 times.
6.Stand facing the wall, lift the affected limb upward to hold the wall, press the palm of the healthy side hand on the affected shoulder under pressure, and gradually do finger touching exercises along the wall upward for 8 times.
Self-exercise]
1.Shake your shoulders back and forth with the two lower limbs open in front of you, straighten the lower limb on the healthy side in front and straighten the lower limb on the affected side in the back, shake the shoulder joint in the front and back direction, from small to large, from slow to fast. Repeat this several times.
2.Climbing wall activities facing the wall, use both hands or one hand to slowly move upward along the wall, so that the upper limbs are raised as high as possible, and then slowly return downward to the original place. Repeat this several times.
3.Pull the hands behind the back, pull the affected hand with the healthy hand to make it gradually inward and upward. Repeat this several times.
4, external rotation exercises stand with the back against the wall, the affected limb fist bent elbow, the affected elbow against the chest wall, the affected limb external rotation, try to make the back of the fist touch the wall. Repeat this several times.
5.Stand with your hands on the sky, interlock your fingers, lift slowly from the front of the abdomen, lift flat and pull upward, and so on for several times.
6, shrugging shoulders around standing, hands on the shoulders, forward and backward continuous around 10 circles; restore rest, and then do backward and forward continuous around 10 circles, the action should be slow, the amplitude from small to large. Repeat this several times.
Self-protection】
1, pay attention to the warmth and cold is to prevent frozen shoulder is very important measures, especially for the affected shoulder warmth, do not sleep when the wind is cold, hot days long blowing fans, air conditioning. Avoid eating cold and cold food.
However, patients should not be afraid to exercise the shoulder joint because of the pain, but must cooperate with functional exercise at the same time of treatment. It is required to be persistent, gradual and different from person to person to prevent over fatigue.