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Frozen shoulder
My dad got a frozen shoulder. He's been going to a physiotherapist for 10 days. There is a slight reduction in pain but negligible. The physio, before joining, had said that it would take my dad 8-10 days to do away with the frozen shoulder. Now, since there's been no progress. What should my dad do? The pain is quite awful.
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Frozen shoulder can happen also in case of diabetes if he is diabetic u need to work on controlling his diabetes through medications and diet modification.
As it is a frozen shoulder it will take around 3-6 months to gain shoulder mobility and pain reduction
Also along with frozen shoulder there can be other factors also like tendinitis or bursitis or any kind of impingement and in some cases cervical radiculopathy can also be associated with this
Next Steps
For pain reduction take hot packs painkillers Tens and ultrasound
To reduce pain and to gain mobility first work on pendulum exercise posterior capsule stretch and joint mobilization, shoulder ladder exercises alongwith neck and upper back exercises
Health Tips
avoid sleeping on the affected side
avoid heavy weights lifting
avoid forward bending of the neck
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Please mention patient is Daibetic or not. Then if shoulder joint movement restricted and difficulty to move over head and back side and since how many days it happened.
Next Steps
moist heat compresion for 10mints for 2times per day.
Health Tips
scapula mobilisation.
caudal gliding.
pendulum exercises.
external rotation exercise 10sec hold for 10repitation 2times per day.
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Depending upon on the stage of frozen shoulder
Its takes time
Progress doesn’t happens only with pain relieving modalities
Its better to do exercises at home
Positioning while sleeping also matters a lot
Giving hot water fermentation with exercise will aid to the recovery
Health Tips
Consult for better assessment and outcome
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Actually depending upon the body condition and age and any previous history and diabetic condition.
It may tske time from.10-25 days as well.
some recover fast, for some it will take time of a month as well.
Ultrasound therapy and with IFT it will recover.
no need to worry about it.
Do hot water fermentaiton twice a day and ask your father not to apply or put pressure on the hand, just few simple exerxises at home.needs to be done to recover fast.
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Please do some necessary Test ,
Uric acid,
X Ray of Shoulder
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