[Vickie]

Hello All,

Actually, Willow Golf, I liked your technical description of the lateral rotation stated as "'L' shape straight up. It is certainly a phrase everyone can relate to. (And there I go dangling a participle) For clarification, "adhesive capsulitis" is more commonly known as a Frozen Shoulder. There is much controversy about the diagnosis and the treatment. Cortisone truly works in that, in my esoteric opinion, it interrupts the distress on the central nervous system and the joint can relax and do it's job of healing. Chronic pain is a great deterrent and distracter of the bodies ability to 'get on with the process of healing' no matter what you do; rest, stretch, or strengthen. Unfortunately, too many people take advantage of the interruption of pain and over-do during this reprieve from pain and do deeper and more permanent damage. Sounds like Willow Golf continued to get great information and created a healing protocol.

As Willow Golf typed, even though the pain is in your arm it truly does all initiate with all of the shoulder muscles and then impacts the extremities. Since the extremity muscles also attach to the core (the bicep muscle attaches to the top of the shoulder blade where the tricep muscles attach to the side of the shoulder blade) and the core attachments in this case are shoulder muscles everything becomes complicated to diagnose and treat.

Allow me a moment of over-simplified and not too politically correct anatomy. On the most basic level the inside of the shoulder blade is a muscle called the rhomboid, which participates with,among other attachments, the rotator cuff muscles, biceps, triceps, traps and lats all of which keep the shoulder in place for ease of movement of your arms. In my practice I find that by correcting the postural alignment of the torso, core, muscles you take away the confusion that creates mis-management of the connections that allow the extremity muscles, in this case arms, to move freely through the joint without discomfort.

All of this to say hurrah! Physio for specific and improved joint articulation, strengthening and flexibility; that’s the secret. Posts from every conceivable resource and experience are what make a thread like this most beneficial. Welcome and thank you Willow Golf for participating and offering your great insights and experience.

Vickie