Frozen shoulder is the common name for adhesive capsulitis. It’s a medical condition that can cause extreme pain and a very limited range of motion(ROM) in the shoulder joint (glenohumeral socket) area. Frozen shoulder creates intense contraction of the capsule that surrounds and supports the shoulder girdle,hence its name adhesive CAPSULITIS. Although many articles and ‘experts’ will claim that the cause of frozen shoulder pain is unknown,that simply isn’t true. What is true however,is that it has a multitude of causitive factors. These include,but certainly aren’t limited to:

• Any sort of injury to the shoulder area such as a strain or sprain.




• Being out of spinal alignment relates to this as well and this is why seeing a qualified chiropractor is imperative in healing frozen shoulder pain.




• Age,in a sense,can be a risk factor in developing frozen shoulder pain. The majority of people with frozen shoulder are women between forty and sixty years of age. This could very well be tied to hormonal changes that occur during this stage of life.




• What I believe is a major factor in creating frozen shoulder in people that is not usually hit upon on most websites is the underlying emotional factor. Supressed emotions and painful memories that have not been  properly processed can most certainly manifest as physical pain. The mind/body connection has been proven by both scientific studies,as of late,as well as ancient wisdom for thousands of years.
  If you are interested in healing the root cause of physical symptoms I refer you to the EFT website at www.emofree.com and books by current healing/spiritual genius minds such as Deepak Chopra and Bruce Lipton.




• Diabetes has been found to be highly related to developing frozen shoulder pain. It’s one more reason to control carbohydrate intake and live a healthy lifestyle to avoid this dangerous,painful condition.

Frozen shoulder starts with a stiffening,contracting effect of the shoulder area where adhesive bands are formed,restricting motion. It then proceeds through two additional stages as is shown below.

1. -First,the painful,freezing state. This stage normally has the highest level of acute pain. Range of motion is starting to becoming impaired,but its not nearly as stiff the next phase. Most people will claim that this stage takes anywhere from six to twelve weeks to move through but that is with the old paradigm of healing. Using the above mentioned mind/body techniques along with the proper physiological support,healing can go MUCH,MUCH quicker. Don’t suffer through drawn out pain just because it has been dubbed ‘normal’ by an outmoded modality of medicine.




2. -Second comes the actual frozen stage,where it gets its notorious name. The pain normally diminishes during this stage,but this is where you really lose your range of motion. Movement can be extremely limited,making it hard to even comb your hair,brush your teeth,button up your shirt,or anything else that involves raising your arm above your head. ‘Normal’ timeframes to work through this phase are usually quoted from four to six months,but again,see my above comments and don’t succumb to this unnecessary,drawn out suffering.




3. -Third and finally comes the thawing stage. People at large will tell you this is a gradual drawn out phase,lasting as long as,or more,than a year! Please,please read into my above mentioned information.The information for quick,natural healing of frozen shoulder pain is there,and many have already benefitted from it. That is why I wrote this article,and created this blog as a whole. To help people heal their frozen shoulder far quicker than what is currently deemed as ‘normal’ and ‘unavoidable’. With the proper shoulder physical therapy,you will learn how to stretch the affected area to speed up healing. This,coupled with the above information should have you well on the road to a full,speedy recovery.
   

These types of problems are one of the most common inflammatory conditions in modern times. Thank goodness there are quite a few different ways to help get you feeling good as new.

Being the biggest, most intricate, and most mobile joint in the entire body, the shoulder has a lot that can go wrong with it! But on the flip side of that same coin, it has the capability to be incredibly strong and versatile if you take care of it with proper diet and exercise.

Oddly enough, shoulder pain does not come from the shoulder directly in all cases!

Some good examples of this would be conditions like pneumonia and gall bladder problems, or arthritis in your neck. Heart problems can also cause pain in this area, especially on the left half of your body.

There are three main categories of genuine shoulder pain and they are:

1- Busitis – This is caused by repetitive motion that can cause the area to become swollen and very inflamed.

2- Trauma – Including things like car accidents, exercise over exertion, and extreme muscular imbalance

3- Arthritis – New research is showing that arthritic conditions are not just 'part of old age' but rather a build up of 'bad calcium' in the body. For more fascinating information, backed by real science, do a Google search for 'David Wolfe bad calcium' and be prepared to be amazed!

So take care of your shoulders, workout properly, eat right, avoid 'bad calcium' supplements and you can avoid shoulder pain for the rest of your life.

Roseanna Ellis recently spent some time applying EFT in a nursing home rehab center.  Her prolific results are given in this article.  This would be a good one to show to other rehab centers as a way to show how much could be done to accelerate healing.

Hugs, Gary

Dear Gary,

With business being slow due to the fact that I live off the beach, I decided to work for a month or so doing physical therapy in a rehab center within a nursing home. These are people that were in hospital who can’t go home yet because they are unable to care for themselves and thus must spend a few weeks getting better.

Normally I hate working in a nursing home because it is not challenging enough for me. But to my surprise I have had an amazing time in the past two weeks. I have been going around tapping everyone, from nurses to aids to bosses to patients.

First my boss complained of severe Right knee pain and tightness. Her 0-10 intensity level was an 8 for pain and in Range of motion she was only 70/90. I only worked on her for about 10 minutes for pain and for tightness. She got off the mat and wide-eyed said, ” I can’t believe it but my pain is completely gone. I checked her hamstring range and it had increased to 90/90 a perfect hamstring.

Next one of my patients who was in her 80′s was feeling sick to her stomach and had been that way for a few days. The nurse had called the doctor and he agreed to send her to the hospital for tests. I was to walk her in therapy first. I asked her if I could tap her to get rid of her stomach pain. She agreed and within 10 minutes she was up and moving fine without much pain.

I saw her in the hallway later that day and asked how the tests went? She answered, ” I changed my mind and decided I was feeling much better and the nurse canceled my hospital visit.

This kind of stuff happened all day every day with all my patients. I won’t bore you but two I must tell.

One gentleman, in his 50s, not my patient, but I interfered in his therapy (like I know everything right?) Well he had had a brain operation and was left paralyzed on his left leg. To make matters worse his right shoulder was classified as a frozen shoulder which was hindering his progress because he needed his arms to pull himself up in the parallel bars. His range was about 90 degrees and normal range was 180. He also had severe pain upon movement of that arm.

Well I worked with him for five minutes while his therapist was seeing to another patient. Within that time I got about 30 degrees extra movement and the pain had diminished about 20%.

The next day I asked his therapist if I could work a little more on him. I allowed her to test his range. She tested it at 130/180 which was where EFT had got him the day before. I worked EFT for 10 min. and I called his therapist over again to re-measure him. Now normally range like this takes weeks and weeks to achieve, that is why I wanted her to re-test. She looked a little annoyed thinking that she had just tested him and why was I asking her again. To her shock it was 175/180, and the man had no pain through the motion. I downloaded your EFT manual and gave it to him today to read and told him to apply it to himself every hour on the hour for a few days.

Another EFT miracle happened yesterday. One of my patients who is 72 years old, has had a very difficult time walking. Her balance is very poor. I had been working with her for a few days just doing regular therapy, when yesterday she said ” I am so afraid of falling, what happens if I fall and I can’t get up?. Well I began to tap her for her fear of falling, I worked for about ten minutes until I felt secure enough to walk her again to test her fear. Well she walked with so much control that it shocked me (which usually doesn’t happen too much any more). Then she shocked me further when she stated” I have not walked this good since I was in my 30s. You should have seen her smile.

Today I worked on her some more. Then I had her walking backwards, without loss of balance. She pushed herself around the nursing home shouting how great she was able to walk. She told me that her husband didn’t believe it and that he wants to come to see her in therapy. She is forbidden to walk unless she is in therapy because of her history of falls.

If only out-patient facilities were willing to let me work on patients like this. But I know it would never happen. To get a frozen shoulder or a replaced knee better within a few visits would put them out of business in a very short time. For now I grab what I can get away with.

Love, Roseanna

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Here’s a snippet of a press release I just came across I’m posting for my readers,the link to the whole story is posted at the bottom.

“- The One-To-Zero (OTZ) Health Education Systems (www.otzhealthed.com) frozen shoulder syndrome diagnosis and treatment curriculum developed by Dr. Francis X. Murphy is being sponsored by Dallas-based Parker College of Chiropractic for 12 hours of professional Continuing Education (CE). The OTZ curriculum, which is taught to doctors via live and online video instruction, has been accredited or is in the process of receiving accreditation in all 50 United States. Doctors and patients from the United States and elsewhere may learn more at www.otzhealthed.com.

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If you have a frozen shoulder diagnosed by your physician and have done any research on this condition, then you are aware of the 3 stages by now: Stage 1 – Increasing pain in the shoulder joint with daily activities or range of motion, Stage 2 – Increasing stiffness and loss of motion, but usually less pain, and Stage 3 – Shoulder range of motion beginning to increase slowly with return of functional abilities. Hopefully if you have begun a frozen shoulder exercise program then you are experiencing results. But what if you are not?

If your progress is less than desired then you might add these tips to boost your results:

• Try a very warm shower, or even better a very warm bath just prior to beginning your exercise. The moist heat will increase local blood flow and extensibility (stretchiness) of the tissues in and around the shoulder joint.
• Start with good posture before beginning each exercise. If you look in the mirror and your natural relaxed posture reveals rounded shoulders and upper back and your chin is protruding forward, this will lessen the amount of motion you will be able to obtain. Retract your chin slightly, sit up tall or stand tall, and roll your shoulders backwards before beginning any range of motion exercise. By doing this you place your affected shoulder in a more natural position and will make the frozen shoulder exercise more effective.
• Increase your frequency and intensity of each exercise session. You should be stretching and strengthening several times a day, but each session should be more brief with focused intensity rather than 2-3 long drawn out sessions. You will see quicker results by not allowing the shoulder to stiffen up between sessions that are too far apart.

The tips above will boost the effectiveness of your frozen shoulder treatment and increase your motivation as you will see results sooner. Always consult your doctor before beginning any exercise program and make sure your program is designed by a professional or licensed clinician.

This gives you some excellent information on how you can apply eft to help heal your frozen shoulder pain.Please feel free to leave any questions or comments.

New Look at Pain Relief

“EFT offers great healing benefits.” Deepak Chopra, MD

“Where did the pain go?”, is the common response from most EFT newcomers. Properly applied, an estimated 80% achieve noticeable to complete pain relief within minutes and the result is often long lasting. No meds, surgeries or other medical interventions involved … and you can do it for yourself. You can also learn the EFT basics for free with our Free EFT Get Started Package or you can save time and dive right in to become an expert with our DVD Libraries.

Read this informative press release: Pain Relief – New “Acupuncture without Needles” Technique Reports 80% Effectiveness, Often Out-Performing Drugs

Why such dramatic relief?: EFT aims at two vital causes of pain that are largely outside the medical approach. This is why EFT often works for pain relief where nothing else will.

Cause #1 – Disrupted Subtle Energies: It has long been known that subtle energies circulate throughout our bodies and that the free flow of this energy can be vital to our health. Interrupt this energy and the result can be pain and disease. Stop it altogether and you may be headed toward death. Eastern health practices have been based on this concept for over 5,000 years. Einstein’s findings also relate to our bodies being composed of energy.

It should be no surprise, then, that repairing any disruptions in these subtle energies can lead to symptom and pain relief. Fortunately, the easy to learn EFT process allows even beginners to improve this free flow by stimulating (tapping on) certain “release points” on the body.

Cause #2 – Negative Emotions (Anger, Trauma, Fear, etc): It is a well established medical fact that our emotions trigger varying chemicals in our bodies. Joyous emotions can produce healing chemicals while negative emotions can create disease causing chemistry into our systems. For example, you may be familiar with how stress might contribute to ulcers or high blood pressure. We suggest that negative emotions may be a major cause of pain too. We have seen evidence of this repeatedly as pain subsides once negative emotions have been addressed with EFT.

Properly done, the EFT process address both of these causes simultaneously. Just read the actual cases below.

EFT is a Universal Healing Aid and expands well beyond pain management. It is easy to apply and often works where nothing else will. To get started with EFT just watch the free 7 minute intro movie on the left. You can then Learn EFT for little or no cost. You can also learn more from the free EFT Pain Management Articles below.

Please see this link http://www.emofree.com/articles.aspx?id=19 for all of the related articles.

Here’s a quick informative video on shoulder pain.

P.S.- Speaking of videos, were getting ready to add a whole line of step-by-step videos to the frozen shoulder program here. Anyone who already bought the product will get these updates for free, new buyers will most likely have an increase in price so get in now to save!

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The human body is designed in such a way that our joints are meant to facilitate movement, so when they become stiff and are affected by injury or illness, we feel a great deal of pain and our activities are limited. Most people are familiar with arthritis which is literally crippling and which affects most people as they become old, especially if they lead sedentary lives; but not everyone is familiar with an equivalent kind of debilitating pain in the upper body which affects your shoulders – it’s commonly known as frozen shoulder pain and also by its medical name adhesive capsulitis.

Symptoms include a nagging and sometimes painful ache in your shoulder, stiffness of the joint, and loss of movement. The pain is caused by the shoulder capsule becoming inflamed and stiff. While no one knows exactly why frozen shoulder occurs, it is widely believed that it may be an autoimmune disease where the body attacks the shoulder tissue and depletes the fluid in your shoulder joints. Poor posture and hormonal and genetic illnesses are also thought to be causes for this ailment.

The symptoms and pain can last for around five months or more if you don’t treat it properly (see this link for far quicker recovery!), depending on the patient.

• The pain could get intense and severe at times, so you will have to depend on natural anti-inflammatories such as cissus, bromelain, and proteolytic enzymes.
  
• Warm compresses help relieve some of the pain and enable you to sleep peacefully
• Some people prefer massages to help alleviate the pain. Heat and massage increase blood flow to the affected area and help to bring down the dull ache that could become too much to bear.
• Others turn to acupuncture and other alternative therapies like water therapy for pain relief.
• Physical therapists are able to help some patients manage the pain by taking them through a set of exercises that are designed to improve mobility of the joint and enhance blood flow to the shoulder.
• In extreme cases, surgical intervention is needed to rectify the problem or cope with the pain. The procedure is carried out through arthroscopy, and patients have to undergo physical therapy to regain range of motion and flexibility in their shoulders.

If you have trouble sleeping, try putting a pillow under your shoulder to help relieve residual pain.

By-line:

This article is written by Shannon Wills, who writes on the topic of Physical Therapy Assistant Schools . She welcomes your comments at her email id : shannonwills23@gmail.com .

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