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RECrowley's avatar

My shoulder was frozen and painful for a couple of years. Very painful actually, but by the time my Workmen’s Comp surgery was coming due I was halfway through the normal amount of time for it to heal without intervention , so I bore it naturally for the remaining year and am glad I did. My shoulder is 100% healed now whereas after surgery it never would’ve healed 100%. It would have been stiff for the rest of my days in this bizarre world.

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Larry Burk. MD, CEHP's avatar

Glad to hear that FS is in fact a self-limited disease even though most people are not as patient as you were. However, it does recur in the opposite shoulder up to 1/3 of the time, so it would be valuable to identify and release any residual emotional triggers for FS to prevent a recurrence using EFT tapping as guided in the video linked in this blog. https://medium.com/thrive-global/do-you-have-anger-frozen-in-your-shoulder-434c13350c4a

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RECrowley's avatar

I didn’t know it could come back.

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Larry Burk. MD, CEHP's avatar

Yes, here is an excerpt from the FS Healing book about it: Sometimes the worst nightmares come true when the frozen shoulder finally thaws only to recur in the opposite shoulder. During such turmoil, few ever consider that there might be an emotional trigger that occurred just before the initial onset of symptoms and is still unresolved.

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RECrowley's avatar

Well, luckily, it never recurred in my other shoulder. That would’ve been depressing.

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Mary Ann Rollano, RN's avatar

Anything for trouble healing SI joint injury?

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Larry Burk. MD, CEHP's avatar

How long have you had symptoms, and what do you think caused it? For chronic pain other than FS, there is likely a learned neural pathway as detailed in this blog. https://medium.com/thrive-global/is-chronic-pain-all-in-your-brain-824bfe27bc7d

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