Heal Your Frozen Shoulder With Chiropractic Care

By Alexis Mills

Having a frozen shoulder has nothing to do with it being cold as ice, but instead that it is filled with stiffness and pain. Even though it has a strange name, frozen shoulder is a condition that isn't a laughing matter. It is a painful condition that isn't easy to treat and just gets worse over time.

What Exactly Is Frozen Shoulder?

Frozen shoulder is mainly characterized by the stiffness and pain in the shoulder joint. It develops slowly with time but does continually get worse. It is categorized into three stages.

• Freezing stage - This beginning stage is when any movement of your shoulder causes pain and your range of motion starts to become limited.
• Frozen stage - This middle stage, the pain begins to diminish, but the shoulder becomes stiffer, and using it becomes extremely difficult.
• Thawing stage - This last stage is the healing stage, when you start to see results from treatment and gain back your range of motion.

Causes of Frozen Shoulder 

The shoulder joint is made up of bones, ligaments and tendons, and is held together with connective tissue. When the connective tissue thickens around the shoulder joint, it causes the shoulder joint from getting full range of motion and makes movement painful. People who are immobile from an injury of a broken bone, stroke, or recovery from an injury are much more likely to develop a frozen shoulder. But other than that, doctors aren't sure why it happens to some people.

Treatment With Chiropractic Care

Receiving chiropractic care to help your frozen shoulder will give results of relieving your pain and increasing your range of motion. Chiropractic care is one of the most effective, safe, and all-natural methods used to treat people with frozen shoulder. A chiropractor uses applied pressure to the joints near the shoulder in order to gradually restore mobility and decrease discomfort in the area. With time and proper treatment, the patient enters the final stage, known as the thawing out stage, in which the shoulder's range of motion begins to improve. A chiropractor will also be able to suggest range-of-motion exercises to facilitate healing as soon as possible.

It's important to note that you should come in for treatment when you see the first signs of the freezing stage because this isn't going to go away on its own and you could save yourself months of misery. Treatment just takes more time and energy if your body progresses to the frozen stage, so if you are able to catch it in the freezing stage and prevent it from getting worse, you will thank yourself.

To learn more about your health, wellness and fitness, see your local chiropractor at The Joint Chiropractic in Columbus, Ohio.