frozen shoulder

Many people with hyperthyroidism experience adhesive capsulitis, commonly known as a frozen shoulder.

Characterized by a painful gradual loss of active and passive shoulder motion, frozen shoulder is associated with several hyperthyroid conditions such as Graves’ disease, toxic multinodular goiter, and subacute thyroiditis.

Today I’m sharing common symptoms of adhesive capsulitis, how it’s diagnosed, conventional and natural treatment options, and why lowering your thyroid levels alone probably won’t resolve your pain.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) specific to hyperthyroidism
• Symptoms of frozen shoulder
• The three clinical phases of adhesive capsulitis
• How frozen shoulder is diagnosed
• Conventional treatment options
• Natural anti-inflammatory agents used to treat frozen shoulder
• Why lowering thyroid levels doesn’t usually resolve the problem
• Physical intervention is often necessary

While frozen shoulder is not very common, it’s something I’ve encountered enough times in my practice that it’s worth looking into. As always, I hope you found this episode valuable, and I look forward to catching you in the next episode!



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Have you ever had a shoulder that just wouldn’t move? There could be a number of reasons why! But today I’m talking about ‘Frozen Shoulder.’

Adhesive capsulitis is very often described as frozen shoulder. It shows up clinically when someone has pain in their shoulder that gets worse over time. The reason frozen shoulder is term you may have heard before is because it takes a long time for someone to recover from this and normally they are unable to move their arm. Adhesive capsulitis is where the shoulder capsule adheres to the head of the humerous. Often it’s considered idiopathic in the medical world, meaning it just arises spontaneously, or it is due to a secondary condition like autoimmune or endocrine disorders.

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EP 44: As a midlifer, do the aches and pains of midlife make you feel like the annoying squeaky wheel on the bottom of the shopping cart? Yes, I’m talking about those midlife creaky joints. You hear your feet crinkle when you walk to pee in the morning…Then listen to my new Midlife Snap, Crackle & Pop…Mystery Pains. 

This is my fourth minisode of The Midlife Golden Sh*t Shovel Cluster F*ck Series. In this week’s minisode, I dive deep into dealing with another midlife medical issue. This time I had the frozen shoulder! And believe me it was even worse than it sounds. I talk about taking those dreadful midlife trips to the doctor’s office, getting numerous opinions and why they’re worth it. Trying out alternative therapies, like shoulder laser, cortisone injections, physical therapy & more. If you’re not feeling great…get your ass up and go to the doctor! Or two, or three…wish we could “WD-40” our midlife joints…

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• Creaky midlife joints are normal!
• Make your health a priority
• Get a second opinion on medical issues
• How to have a smoother doctor’s visit
• Don’t settle when it comes to your health
• It is just “menopause” is not a good enough answer
• You are not alone
• Ignore family members who think you are making sh*t up or over exaggerating

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What is Frozen Shoulder?

Frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, is a condition characterized by stiffness and pain in your shoulder joint. Signs and symptoms typically begin gradually, worsen over time and then resolve, usually within one to three years.
Here is the progression of frozen shoulder symptoms. It begins with any movement of your shoulder that causes pain, and your shoulder's range of motion starts to become limited. Usually, this will be ignored or treated with heat, tens units, or NSAIDs.  Next, if there was any pain it may begin to diminish initially during this next stage. However, your shoulder becomes stiffer, and using it becomes more difficult. Watch out because here is where the shoulder pain and difficulty sleeping starts to turn up.
Restful sleep becomes more difficult to attain adding to increased pain as scar tissue starts to form in the thin muscle covering called the fascia. Simple movements become gradually more painful and you naturally start to use the shoulder less and less. This allows for greater infiltration of scar-like adhesions resulting in even more shoulder pain and less motion.
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The next part of fixing a frozen shoulder is to isolate specific muscle groups that we have found to be the real culprit in adhesive capsulitis. The latissimus dorsi muscles, known as the lats, are the large V-shaped muscles that connect your arms to your vertebral column. They help protect and stabilize your spine while providing shoulder and back strength. We find the Lats to be shortened. Next up usually the subscapularis is shortened as well. The subscapularis internally or medially rotates the humerus. So you can see why it might be involved in frozen shoulder cases, typically these muscles are stretched to resolve the role they play in adhesive capsulitis.
Our findings also include a weakened deltoid and a weakened

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In this episode, Dr. Rountree reviews a study about high dose, high intensity laser therapy for frozen shoulder syndrome. This study also allows us to see how laser dose affects patient progress.

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In this podcast episode Frozen Shoulder-Who’s at Risk and How to Identify it! I talk about several risk factors that predispose patients to getting a “Frozen Shoulder” and I discuss the most common physical findings that help you confirm the diagnosis of Adhesive Capsulitis of the Shoulder. Trust me when I say that you will…

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Here is a video of a patient with a Frozen Shoulder

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