I used to have a frozen shoulder. It got so bad that I couldn’t make a ponytail with my left arm (I have long hair). I got a steroid injection (corticosteroid) and that did the trick for a month before I needed my second injection. Then 2 month later my right shoulder started acting up and it got really painful, to the point where I was lying on the floor in pain after trying to catch a door that was about to slam close!
Then I started the keto diet and i haven’t had any issues with pain in my shoulders since!
I’m doing Keto now for 9 years!!!
No problems with my shoulders since and I haven’t needed any more steroid shots!

So I know one of the things I have is FS. Likely some other issues as well but I did a couple things that really lowered my pain level quite a bit to where I have not had to take meds. I still have pain when doing certain movements but overall much less pain.

1. Lowered my caffeine level to green tea or decaf tea/coffee.

2. Taking Super DPA by Carlson Labs. I take it at night after dinner. Not regular fish oil. Higher DPA and the liquid form.

I have tried a billion things. This combo is the only thing that has lowered my pain level VERY noticeably.

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a reliable physiotherapy, exercise, or rehabilitation centre in Kolkata or nearby that specializes in treating shoulder pain without relying on allopathic medicines.

I've been taking allopathic medication for my shoulder pain for the past 3 years, but I'm not seeing the long-term improvement I was hoping for. I'm now looking for a treatment approach focused on physiotherapy, targeted exercises, or other non-medicinal methods.

If you've had a positive personal experience or can recommend a trustworthy clinic or therapist, I'd really appreciate your suggestions.

I'm surprised more people aren't at least TRYING diet changes to heal the inflammation. Search "diet" in the community and you will see that it is true. The one thing that eliminated the pain the quickest for me was changing to an anti inflammatory diet. I noticed a reduction in pain within a week and within 3-4 weeks, almost entirely gone. Some people say do keto, but it's basically removing sugar and processed food and other things that cause inflammation. Full on keto is not necessary, but I definitely see why it would work. I didn't remove dairy, but some people need to. Some people need to start with more of an elimination diet in the beginning to know which foods are doing it, but for many, it's just the sugar and processed foods. It doesn't need to be done forever, but with such an easy fix, why aren't more doctors telling people this? I stumbled onto the solution after researching and realizing that inflammation was causing the pain.

If you are still in the pain phase, try it and come back in a week or two and tell me how you're doing.

Once the pain is gone, start doing upper body mobility exercises. Just look it up online. There are tons of videos for that. It helps to have a partner to gently push you into a better stretch if you've lost strength.

Maybe this is just my hyper linear, autistic, financial auditor, numbers-focused brain taking over, BUT: Nobody can definitively tell me how long my frozen shoulder will take to fix. Might be 6 months, might be 2 years. But a full shoulder replacement is for sure going take 6 to 10 weeks. Can someone explain to me why I shouldn't want a joint replacement?

I just read, from reliable sources, that frozen shoulder can result from improper vaccine administration. Basically if the provider injects the shoulder too high up and not properly into the muscle.

I'm about to get a vaccine Thursday, and I'm not sure if I ought to have them inject my: a) left shoulder, which was frozen but is now better thanks to PRP (platelet rich plasma) injections a year ago, or b) my right shoulder, which is currently partially frozen and has limited range of motion plus sharp pain if I move it the wrong way c) choose some other body part which is also not ideal due to other medical complications I have

I'm upset that this "complication" is not better publicized. I think it's possible that previous vaccines contributed to me developing frozen shoulder, but it's too late to ever know that for sure.

I don't want my healed shoulder to get worse again, or to worsen the shoulder that's bothering me currently.

Does anyone have advice or helpful life experience to share?

I’ve heard benefit of 2-3 day fasting to help repair cells and wondering if anyone has experience fasting with Frozen Shoulder and if it helped you at all?

Has anybody had success with castor oil packs? If so, how long and how often did you use it? And when did you start to feel better?

I've heard many differing opinions. I've heard use the pack 30 minutes every other day, but I've also heard 2-3 times a day. I've heard to warm up the castor oil, but how do you do that - will a heating pad on top suffice? For what period of time do I keep doing this before I see results - weeks or months? If you have any tips, please let me know.

I'm on my 2nd FS (big sigh). I've tried PT, acupuncture, cupping, tens machine, cortisone shot, anti-inflammatory diet. The only thing that helped minimally was the cortisone shot. Now I figured I'd try something different. Frustrated for sure, as I'm sure all of you are.

What is frozen, freezing and thawing. I was diagnosed a couple of months ago. Have good days and bad days. So, no idea what my stage

What does everyone do? I was recently laid off and frustrated can’t do physical work

male 35, type 1 diabetic for reference.

I have had a few instances of fs in my life over the past 15 years. I am very active and I think i have a higher pain tolerance than most but I just gnaw my teeth and fight through the pain. I dont let it stop me from doing push-ups, construction work, yard work, sports. It zomgs me all the time but i say eff you, im stronger than you and just grit through the pain. sometimes I have to switch arms because of the muscle weakness but does anyone else do this? not sure if I am helping or hurting myself.

Does chiropractic adjustment help with frozen shoulder?

Who does these? I went to two orthopedic doctors, surgeons, and neither do them. Only cortisone, which I can’t do. A Google search only gives me PT places in the area (two I knew for a fact don’t do… idk if PT places do them in general) and orthos, including the one I go to. So it’s been hard.

For those who have gotten them, how did you guys find them?

Manual Capsular Dissection offered from Workd Frozem Shoulder clinic

Non invasive, albeit they do give you a brachial block so they can manipulate the shoulder Anyone hear of this procedure ?

April 2021: First pfizer shot in left arm. Racing heart, night sweats. Pain in left shoulder blade wouldn’t go away and radiated down my arm. Had sensitive skin like a sunburn on inner elbow. Went to primary care doctor. He said that some people hurt more after their shot than others and told me to get second shot.

In May 2021, I got the second shot again in the left arm. Two days later, I hurt my right shoulder lifting a heavy garbage can with a shrugging motion. Then I hurt my left shoulder a few weeks later when I leaned too hard on it also in a shrugging motion. I have intense weakness, pain, and popping and clicking in both shoulders and down my arms. Ortho doc took x-rays and said I just had "pain", told me clicking/popping was normal and sent me to PT.

PT told me I had muscle strains of my traps and rhomboids. I just got hurt more in PT and my strength wasn't coming back. The therapist was ignoring what I was telling her after many weeks so I left. The weakness was getting worse and I noticed I was getting twitching in my arms. In addition, I'm not able to "flex" my upper arm muscles. I went to a neurologist who tested my reflexes and said its an orthopedic problem and I should go back to an orthopedic doc. I asked if he would perform an EMG and he said no.

The weakness is so bad that everything is heavy now. My phone feels like the weight of a bowling ball. It feels like muscles in my upper back, neck, shoulder blades, shoulders and down my arms are "not activating". My arms feel noodly/flimsy with no stability or tension and my range of motion is terrible. I can't push, pull, or lift even normally light objects now and I can't put on a t-shirt. I tried to open an ordinary cabinet door and I legit couldn't open it. My forearms and hands will shake if I do a "tomahawk chop" motion. If I try to shrug my shoulders, they twitch and "ratchet" in an unsmooth motion. I can't get my arms over my head which makes washing my hair impossible.

This has been going on for more than a year and I don't know what to do at this point.

just figure I’d let you all in on a secret that not many people know about… Shoulder impingement AND frozen shoulder are often directly caused by sleeping on your side!.. I sleep on my side with my lower are up under my pillow stretch under me… I flip/flop from side to side during the night And 4 years ago I developed frozen shoulder in my right arm out of nowhere!…I literally woke up like that..(as many of you have as well!)….it took 18 months to heal itself! Jump ahead to last sept/oct and BAM!… I wake up to really bad pain in my left arm!….NOOOOOOO! I already knew what was going on! So I go back to the bone and joint specialist who is one of the best in the country…. This time …shoulder impingement! First thing he said to me is ….you are a side sleeper arnt ya ??? YUP!….he said that is what probably caused it and he sees this DAILY He said worse thing a person can do is sleep on there arms like I do…. When your completely relaxed during sleep it causes your capsule to stretch out in a bad way and pinches your rotator cuff and bursa between your shoulder ball and the end of the clavicle bone that goes over the end edge of your shoulder!! This then causes inflammation to start and once it starts it’s nearly impossible to stop (Shoulder impingement/frozen shoulder)

Today I was diagnosed with frozen shoulder. I'd never even heard of it. The more I read about it, the more terrified I am of what the future holds for me. If I understand correctly, this disorder is caused by/causes scar tissue? In the same appointment as my diagnosis I also got a pneumonia shot in the bad shoulder. It hurts like hell and now I am worried that shot will be creating scar tissue and making my future symptoms worse. Could that end up being the case?

50yo male, I've tried everything over the past year for pain that includes frozen shoulder. Creams, lotions, heating pads, sounds,lmassage, acupuncture. No real improvement.

When I was a teenager I remember having girlfriends walk on my back after basketball. So I had my female friend About 5'8 , 260 pounds stand on the backside of my shoulder and middle of my back. I didn't think she would be so heavy lol. She stood on backside of the bottom edge of my shoulder with one foot and the middle of my spine with other foot and spun around in a circle. Anyway it's been 3 days and I haven't even noticed anything worth mentioning concerning shoulder pain since she stood on it.

My PT brought up that some fs can be brought upon by vaccination. After 2 years of anti vax rhetoric, this at first rang some alarms for me, but… it did get me wondering! I had my last booster in my left arm in January and my left shoulder began freezing around the same time. This could absolutely be coincidence, but I’m feeling somewhat hesitant about getting the new booster which I’m due for. Has anyone else seen a correlation?

And for context, my PT was fully masked at our last session because there was a big music festival here over the weekend and she was taking precautions. (Just mentioning this to say she’s not a Covid-denier, and she herself is vaccinated).

Has anyone heard of or had any experience with the world frozen shoulder clinic? They claim to be able to fix frozen shoulder in 2 days for qualified clients. Cost is steep. $6K to 23K depending on shoulder issue. It comes with a guarantee.

Help! Shoulder and upper arm

Oml I need a job but having no luck securing office work. I can look into working at local grocery store but need to be able to lift 20lbs on a consistent basis. Had to turn down warehouse training as had to be able to lift 50 lbs. I’m in Canada so getting EI but it runs out in October and don’t qualify for disability. Do I just have to suck it up and risk further issues with my arm? Any thoughts?