How to Treat Symptoms of Frozen Shoulder

Symptoms of frozen shoulder can be treated by functional exercise, physical therapy, medication and surgery, please follow the doctor’s instruction for specific treatment. 1. Functional exercise: patients with chronic frozen shoulder should move their shoulder joints by flexion, extension, rotation and adduction and abduction every day, and the amount of activity should be limited to not aggravate the pain at night, with the purpose of reducing muscle spasm and tissue adhesion, and speeding up the metabolism. 2. Physical therapy: hot compress, magnetic therapy, ultra-short wave and other physical therapy methods can be chosen to relieve pain symptoms and promote the absorption of inflammation. 2. Medication: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen can be chosen under the guidance of doctors to reduce pain symptoms, and hormonal drugs can also be injected into the joints to achieve the effect of pain relief. 2. Surgical treatment: such as capsulotomy and release, suitable for post-traumatic periarthritis and poor effect of manipulative massage and periarthritis patients with serious diseases. There is also arthroscopic shoulder joint release surgery, which is suitable for patients with intractable pain of frozen shoulder, and can safely and effectively reduce the pain and improve the mobility of the affected shoulder joint. Frozen shoulder patients should follow the doctor’s instructions to cooperate with the functional exercises and treatment, and at the same time, they should not exert themselves too much in daily life, and should not carry heavy objects.