Frozen shoulder. Is there anything that will cure it?

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Recently diagnosed with frozen shoulder and been to see physio who has given me a series of exercises to do daily. From my reading of the situation,the process is likely to take years to resolve. Steroid injections may be of some benefit. A friend has advised me to try Bowen Technique, as she herself found it helpful.
I am not content to leave this painful condition to chance and have a busy life to lead.
Any wise Mumsnetters out there who can give me hope please?

Oh well if Sinitta cured hers with Botox I wonder what we've all been pissing around for

It’s in this article from the Fail:

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1219955/Sinittas-frozen-shoulder-painful-turn-head-Now-shes-cured--thanks-Botox-injection.html

I like how it lists causes of frozen shoulder as including “too much lifting or decorating — but stress, poor posture and tiredness can also trigger it.”

Sounds like bollocks to me

I have had this twice, a steroid injection helped a lot,had two altogether.
The first time i had it,all i did was pull a curtain back and my shoulder just froze, both times lasted just a few months, very frustrating apart from painful, only being able to use one arm,
Hope yours doesnt last too long op

I think the Botox forced the muscle to relax. I have an issue with scar tissue in my shoulder muscle abs it’s caused me huge amounts of trouble over 10 years. I’m still battling it.

It was more the Fail’s causes of frozen shoulder that made me

No mention of hormonal causes, links to diabetes and thyroid disorders, Parkinson’s disease, to people recovering from surgery or have had their arm immobilised etc.

But “decorating”?

I think the term "frozen shoulder" leads people (and the Daily Mail) to think it's a trivial temporary problem where the shoulder is just a bit stiff. It's the most painful condition I've suffered from - and I've had my teeth filled with no anaesthetic. I'm tough, me!

I couldn't sleep for more than an hour for months because of pain - sleeping in a chair mostly as I just couldn't lie down. I was on such powerful painkillers my choice was either be a zombie or put up with some pain. So debilitating.

What did help was weekly physio sessions which were excruciating but the physio moved my shoulder for me to loosen it up. The big win was the steroid injection that made a big difference to mobility

Fully recovered now.

@BitOutOfPractice my experience was so similar to yours, my second shoulder went 18mos after the first. I had about six stiff but relatively pain-free months and then went through it all over again. Second was slightly less severe and not my dominant arm so a bit more tolerable.

Op you have all my sympathy, it's agony.

I was the same thefirstmrsdewinter - had about a year pain free before my other shoulder went. So painful. I put mine down to stress. I've read it's possibly an auto-immune disorder in some cases. I had private physio first time which included some kind of electro-therapy and massage but I had to do the exercises they gave me religiously. I stuck with it and the movement came back gradually and then all of a sudden the pain just went. Took about ) months. Second time I had NHS physio which was just manipulation but again I stuck with the exercises in between and it resolved after a few months.

I didn’t have a full night’s sleep for 3 years. I have read that it takes a year to freeze, is frozen for a year and a year to thaw on average.