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Treatment Tips for Frozen Shoulders
Part II
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Treatment Tips - Continued from Frozen Shoulder - Part I
2. In our cases, we found that trigger point therapy was very instrumental in finding the true sources of our shoulder dysfunction. Trigger points are small contraction knots found in the muscles of the body. Trigger point therapy is a type of specialized self massage designed to ferret out and remove these muscular contractions by applying counter pressure to the contractions, either with your fingers or massage tools.
It is simple to do and works amazingly well for many kinds of chronic muscle pain, and for me it has been especially effective for my frozen shoulder. I have had better success doing trigger point therapy for my shoulder symptoms that I have had with most other types of treatments. I've tried many different treatments for my chronic pain conditions, and trigger point therapy is one of the two most effective treatments I found. (The other being yoga).
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"The rigidity of the shoulder imposed by the stiffness of the muscles can give the impression that you have adhesions in the joint....Nevertheless, this condition, commonly called a frozen shoulder, can often be treated very successfully with trigger point massage." Clair Davies, author of The Frozen Shoulder Workbook: Trigger Point Therapy for Overcoming Pain & Regaining Range of Motion |
Trigger point therapy not only helped me with regaining normal shoulder movement, but I also use it on my entire body, especially my legs. This is where knotted muscles ended up being the true source of my shoulder pain. Even today, if I walk for extended periods, I can feel my leg muscles tighten and eventually start to pull on my shoulder and neck causing them to stiffen and tighten up. At least now I know that when that happens, 20 minutes of yoga and trigger point therapy on my legs, torso and upper body will get me back into shape.
Recommended Books:
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The Trigger Point Frozen Shoulder Workbook by Clair Davies |
| Structural Yoga Therapy: Adapting to the Individual by Mukunda Stiles |
3. Yoga is usually great for straightening out your whole body, but in the case of freeing up frozen joints, I have found that it is best to start out very slowly and easily. In my case, and I suspect in others with problems like mine, I couldn't just jump into a general yoga class and expect to get any pain relief. I found that many of the generic yoga poses did more harm than good by causing too much tension in my shoulder area.
When I was first trying to heal my body, if I did yoga poses that either stretched out my arms and/or put a lot of pressure on my shoulder, my shoulder would then just go into into spasm and freeze up even more. So my one of my main treatment tips is to not over do any shoulder exercise. It is better to under exercise rather than over exercise.
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Also see: Frozen Shoulder - Treatment Tips - Part I Exercise Treatments for Frozen Shoulder |
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