frozen shoulders therapies?
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botk1161
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First thing is to stop the movements that are pissing it off (its usually bicep work and going to failure on any push or pull movement), get ROM back through therapy (deep tissue massage and ART is good if the therapist is versed with working on gym bros / powerlifters and not just granny frozen shoulder). Address the weaknesses through movement exercises that will allow your shoulder to take lifting again (the therapist should be able to get you started with this). If it has not been pushed too far, there is no reason why something like this cannot be mostly resolved in about 8 weeks (where you can start doing gym bro lifts without pissing it off) and with a clear path forward (proper warm up techniques and on and off day movements and home therapy) in 8 weeks. But I have no clue as to how frozen your shoulder is (how bad you let it get) and what else may be wrong underneath it all.
At home options?
Get a therastick and grind away in your armpit, pec minor, along your lat and where your lat and tricep meets. That is basically what a good therapist would do to get most of the ROM back. Use a massage gun every morning on the full pec, along the clavicle, in the arm pit, the bicep, inner elbow, upper forearm, upper trap and neck). For maintenance, I use the therastick about twice a week and the massage about four times a week. I do specific movements about 3 times a week and focus on not pissing it off.
Bent arm wall stretch, regular pec stretch, the list goes on dependent on what the problems are.
At home options?
Get a therastick and grind away in your armpit, pec minor, along your lat and where your lat and tricep meets. That is basically what a good therapist would do to get most of the ROM back. Use a massage gun every morning on the full pec, along the clavicle, in the arm pit, the bicep, inner elbow, upper forearm, upper trap and neck). For maintenance, I use the therastick about twice a week and the massage about four times a week. I do specific movements about 3 times a week and focus on not pissing it off.
Bent arm wall stretch, regular pec stretch, the list goes on dependent on what the problems are.
ironviking
The Axe Man Cometh!!
There are three stages to frozen shoulder - freezing, frozen, and thawing. Nothing will help in the first two stages. Frozen shoulder will take as long as frozen shoulder decides it will take to get back to normal. There is literally nothing you can do to "unfreeze" it, it's not a true injury but the tendons in a constant state of tension. If he's a normally healthy individual 12 to 18 months but if he has underlying health conditions like diabetes then it could be up to 2 years. I've had it in both shoulders, my right shoulder was around 10 months and not horrific. My left shoulder was agonizing, the pain brought me to my knees a couple times. It took over two years to get back to normal. This was before i started working out again so that quite possibly delayed the healing process.
Best bet is to to do shoulder mobility exercises and do weight training as far as ROM allows. No reason to actually go to therapy because there really isn't much they can do until it is in thawing stage. Maybe at first just to get a list of exercises. Once it is in thawing stage then start hitting it with massages and an ART practitioner.
Best of luck to him
Best bet is to to do shoulder mobility exercises and do weight training as far as ROM allows. No reason to actually go to therapy because there really isn't much they can do until it is in thawing stage. Maybe at first just to get a list of exercises. Once it is in thawing stage then start hitting it with massages and an ART practitioner.
Best of luck to him