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Symptoms of Frozen Shoulder
A dull or aching pain in your shoulder, which tends to be worse at night or when you move your shoulder joint.
Stiffness around your shoulder joint that may stop you from moving your shoulder normally. This can make it difficult to do everyday tasks such as driving or dressing yourself.
The 3 stages of a frozen shoulder
1. Freezing Phase
Gradual onset of shoulder pain at rest with sharp pain at extremes of motion, and pain at night with sleep interruption.

Can last from 2 – 9 months

2. Frozen Phase
Pain starts to subside and progressive loss of shoulder range of movement. Pain only with extremes of movement.

Can last for about 12 months

3. Thawing Phase
Spontaneous, progressive improvement in range of movement.

May last up to 3 years

What causes it?
Onset of this pathology is usually idiopathic (comes on for no particular reason), however there are certain conditions and factors which have been linked to increased occurrence of frozen shoulder.

Such as:

Female population
Aged over 40
Diabetes
Underactive or overactive thyroid
Metabolic Syndrome
Post shoulder surgery or injury

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