Loading ...The pain from a frozen shoulder is debilitating and can prevent you from doing the most ordinary day to day tasks. It can leave you frustrated and unproductive for an extended period of time, even for several months. Even worse, you will be in constant excruciating pain. Therapeutic massage can, however, be used in the treatment of frozen shoulder. This can be done in the form of reflexology massage therapy, Swedish massage therapy, deep tissue massage therapy, sports massage therapy or pregnancy massage therapy. If you are from Suffolk County, Rocky Point, Manorville, Miller Place, Mount Sinai, Port Jefferson, Ridge, Yapank, Shoreham, Weeding River, Riverhead, Setauket, East Setauket, Port Jefferson Station, Coram, Seldon, Farmingville, Brookhaven, Middle Island, Medford or Sound Beach, you can get therapeutic massage as treatment for frozen shoulder by going to a professional massage spa in Rocky Point NY.
In medical terms, frozen shoulder is called adhesive capsulitis because it is the inflammation of the connective tissue surrounding the shoulder joint, and this tissue is the shoulder capsule. Because of the inflammation, the tissue develops adhesions or fused bands. These adhesions cause restricted movement in the shoulder, hence the term frozen shoulder. Any movement causes great pain.
Frozen shoulder has three stages. The freezing stage involves the slow setting in of the pain until it peaks. This takes six weeks up to nine months. The frozen or adhesive stage is when the shoulder is immobile but the pain is very slowly improving. This takes four to nine months. The thawing or recovery stage is when the shoulder slowly returns to its normal range of motion. This takes five months up to three years or even more.
The pain of a frozen shoulder is described as an unceasing dull ache that erupts into sudden spasms and intensifies with particular movements or postures. The pain increases even more in cold temperatures and at night. The patient’s interrupted sleep patterns leads to chronic fatigue, lowered resistance, lowered immunity, depression and referred pain in the neck and back.
Frozen shoulder can be caused by anything that immobilizes the shoulder for a length of time. This can be trauma or injury or even surgery. There are also cases called idiopathic frozen shoulder when the condition just occurs spontaneously without cause.
There are other existing medical conditions that also put patients in high risk of developing frozen shoulder. This includes patients with autoimmune disorder, connective tissue disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic disease, diabetes, heart disease, history of a stroke and lung disease.
People who are already in such high risk conditions should undertake preventive measures against frozen shoulder such as ensuring full range of motion in all directions several times in every day. They could also undergo massage and physical therapy.
When the condition has already set in, however, its treatment can be very painful such that medication is given to alleviate the pain and soothe inflammation. This is necessary before massage therapy and physical therapy can be undertaken to manipulate and stretch the muscles and break up adhesions and existing scar tissue.
Therapeutic massage can be used not only to release the adhesions of frozen shoulder but also to prevent its onset. So whether you are suffering from a frozen shoulder or if you want to avoid it, you can get reflexology massage therapy, Swedish massage therapy, deep tissue massage therapy, sports massage therapy or pregnancy massage therapy from a massage spa in Rocky Point NY that serves Suffolk County, Rocky Point, Manorville, Miller Place, Mount Sinai, Port Jefferson, Ridge, Yapank, Shoreham, Weeding River, Riverhead, Setauket, East Setauket, Port Jefferson Station, Coram, Seldon, Farmingville, Brookhaven, Middle Island, Medford and Sound Beach.
