A patient who complained of frozen shoulder for many years came to seek my treatment. He has sought many treatments but it doesn’t get well. Last year he took Chinese medicine for a year and it does not improve either. I asked the patient if the physician taught him to do some
physiotherapy exercise. The patient answered none. This could be one of the reasons that the patient could not get well after suffering many years.
In fact, treatment of frozen shoulder does not need any medication. The rule of thumb is patient has to do physiotherapy exercise actively and not afraid of pain. Normally I will do acupressure on patients’ foot and ask the patient to move his shoulders. As long as the patient is not afraid of pain and exercise actively, early stage of frozen shoulder will normally improve within few weeks. Long term patients will need few months before recovery. Patients who are afraid of pain and refuse to exercise, are not well treated. As long as the patients are willing to tolerate the pain and exercise, they would tell me that they have much less pain after two weeks. When the exercise is continued, frozen shoulder will be treated.
Treating frozen shoulder does not need medication. Don’t spend on expensive medicines anymore. Because that won’t help.
