Wanted to reach out to the ST community here to see if anyone has gone/going through “frozen shoulder” /adhesive capsulitis? I have completed 9+ weeks of PT, including home PT exercise, and had a cocktail injection two weeks ago. I also started swimming again, but man that is still a bit rough. Just looking to see how long it took you to recover from this diagnosis? Did you find any particular exercises or stretches to benefit you during your recovery?
Thanks for sharing.
Have treated many of these over the years. Definitely can be a frustration, hang in there. True adhesive capsulitis can have an odd progression at time.
Really it will depend what stage of recovery you are in determining how much longer. Think of it as 3 phases. 1) Freezing stage, 2) Frozen stage 3) Thawing stage. The exercise prescription will depend on what phase you are in. I’m assuming that since you are swimming again, you have back MOST of your ROM (so the “thawing” phase) In that case the capsule is likely loosening up some…so estimate 2-3 more weeks (rough guess).
Since you have treated many frozen cases, do you think that a swimmer doing 6-7 days/wk would ever get frozen shoulder??? It seems to me that doing 1000 or so reps with each arm in a 3000-5000 m workout each day would make getting frozen shoulder highly unlikely, but this is just my engineer, non-PT opinion. Your thoughts???