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Complete Guide to Frozen Shoulder
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- Jun 6, 2022 — Minor addition, movement therapy — Added a small sub-section to recommend the “pendulum” exercise. Simple but nice.
- May 13, 2022 — Science update — Added a minor but neat point about how much joint fluid volume is lost in frozen shoulder.
- Dec 2, 2021 — New chapter — A substantive new chapter about the possible role of the mind and muscle guarding in frozen shoulder.
- Jun 17, 2021 — Proofreading — It was time for an annual book tune-up: a few dozen minor errors have been corrected.
- Jun 12, 2021 — Science update — Small but fascinating science update about Ascani et al, exploring a possible link between frozen shoulder and COVID.
- May 8, 2021 — Minor polishing — A little editorial polish, and a bit of elaboration about the role of psychotropic effects.
- Nov 11, 2020 — Science update, ultrasound — Minor citation to Ainsworth on ultrasound for shoulder pain (negative, of course).
- Nov 11, 2020 — Major expansion, posture section — Upgraded from a brief dismissal of the topic to a full discussion, from 100 words to 1000.
- Nov 1, 2020 — Minor upgrade, case study — Added some additional discussion of the implications of Tanya’s story.
- Sep 26, 2020 — Major upgrade, steroid injections — Much more thorough exploration of the plausibility and evidence for exploiting the “WOO” that is probably created by steroid injections.
- Aug 1, 2020 — Upgrade — Added quite a bit of additional detail.
- Jul 20, 2020 — Minor addition, introduction — Expanded on the summary of symptoms just a little, emphasizing the quality and potential severity of the pain.
- Jul 11, 2020 — Upgraded, diagnosis intro — Added more information based on a very helpful video that shows “fake” shoulder ROM achieved entirely with good shoulder girdle motion, while the shoulder joint proper remains completely stuck.
- May 28, 2020 — Editing and more content — Added subsection about passive ROM testing, and did some miscellaneous polishing.
- May 1, 2020 — Expanded, diagnosing sensitization — Added a bunch more specific information about how to recognize sensitization.
- May 1, 2020 — New chapter, sensitization — A new chapter about the role of sensitization in frozen shoulder.
- May 1, 2020 — Added detail, functional freezing chapter — Added a good story about my mother-in-law’s broken arm, which nicely illustrates a neurologically mediated ROM lockdown.
- Feb 6, 2020 — New chapter, opioids —
- Feb 3, 2020 — Improvements — Added some significant improvements while reviewing a couple weeks after first publishing the chapter, most notably a good summary of recent icing controversies.
- Feb 3, 2020 — Updated — Added some basic information about intermittent fasting.
- Jan 22, 2020 — New section, icing and heating —
- Jan 5, 2020 — New sub-topic, oral corticosteroids — Compared and contrasted oral and injected corticosteroids; added some colour/context about anabolic steroids.
- Dec 13, 2019 — Minor editing — Minor editing here and there all over the book… but also organizing, planning, and paving the way for more updates. My work here is never done.
- Nov 22, 2019 — New section, cannabinoids (finally) —
- Nov 22, 2019 — Minor improvement, functional freezing chapter — Minor but interesting: a couple new paragraphs about joint stiffness as a non-specific protective mechanism that may be analogous to functional freezing of the shoulder.
- Nov 21, 2019 — Major update, muscle relaxants — Added a lot more detail, especially about psychoactive “muscle relaxants,” and many new references.
- Nov 16, 2019 — New chapter, Muscle relaxants (Robaxin, Robaxacet, etc), psychoactives, and sedatives —
- Oct 30, 2019 — New chapter, about coarse tissue vibration —
- Oct 28, 2019 — Science update, nature of the beast — Added an interesting reference about a link between carpal tunnel syndrome and heart diease, for context and comparison.
- Sep 10, 2019 — Expanded, bogus treatments list — Added Reiki and magnet therapy, plus a bunch of other minor improvements.
- Sep 10, 2019 — Expanded, massage therapy chapter — Added discussion of general health benefits of massage therapy.
- Sep 5, 2019 — Addition, differential diagnosis — Added facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, a particularly good example of a condition that causes diagnostic confusion in the shoulder.
- Aug 7, 2019 — Book launch — The frozen shoulder guide has been free since I first introduced it in the summer of 2016. Two years and hundreds of hours of development later, I am putting it behind the paywall, the first addition to my inventory of ebooks in many years. It is for sale for $20 USD. All existing boxed set customers will get access automatically — someone who bought a set in 2009 is getting a new book out of that purchase a decade later.
- Aug 1, 2019 — Expanded — Added a fascinating cautionary tale of surgery gone wrong.
- Aug 1, 2019 — New section, testing for functional limitations —
- Jul 31, 2019 — New section, aquatic therapy, flotation, Epsom salts —
- Jul 31, 2019 — New section, about windows of opportunity —
- Jul 30, 2019 — Expansion — Added a detailed overview of all the treatment options reviewed in this tutorial.
- Jul 29, 2019 — New section, Tiger Balm, A535, and friends —
- Jul 25, 2019 — New section, reviewing all the most bogus treatments for frozen shoulder. —
- Jul 23, 2019 — Clarification — Made it clear that frozen shoulder is a particularly strong example of an important phenomenon, the importance of non-specific risk factors in chronic pain.
- Jun 27, 2019 — New chapter, trigger point therapy — Before the update: just a couple of paragraphs about self-massage of trigger points. After: now there’s a concise but complete 2000-word whirlwind tour of the world of trigger point therapy, spelling out the relevance to frozen shoulder and plenty of specific advice for frozen shoulder patients.
- May 21, 2019 — New sub-topic — Fascinating addition to the tutorial: “Shoulder injury related to vaccine administration.”
- Apr 24, 2019 — Expanded — Imaging is now discussed in its own small section, and I beefed it up with information about the role of diagnostic ultrasound.
- Mar 18, 2019 — Science update — Added information and citations on the condition of the joint in severe cases, and the link to Dupuytren’s contracture.
- Feb 15, 2019 — New section, about cases caused by infection after surgery —
- Jan 19, 2019 — Minor science update — Added support from another researcher (Bunker) for abolishing the term “adhesive capsulitis.”
- Jan 19, 2019 — Science update — Added information about the prevalence of frozen shoulder in the general population and in diabetics.
- Jan 5, 2019 — Clarification, diagnosis section — Made it clear that frozen shoulder is a diagnosis of exclusion.
- Jan 5, 2019 — Addition, nature of the beast — Defined the condition more precisely and thoroughly. Added a substantive footnote about the exact anatomy affected.
- Oct 11, 2018 — New section, Desensitization and disinhibition —
- Oct 11, 2018 — New section, shockwave ultrasound — Predictably gloomy conclusions! But it’s now here for thoroughness.
- Oct 11, 2018 — Science update — Cited and analyzed Jewell et al with regards to the poor results from physical therapy overall, and massage specifically.
- Oct 11, 2018 — Improved — Significantly improved the answer to the question “How would functional freezing work?” by including sensitization.
- Oct 11, 2018 — Science update — A small but important update: cited Hollmann et al, who demonstrated in a small study that at least some people with frozen shoulder aren’t frozen when anaesthetized, strongly suggesting that at least some cases are not caused by capsular contracture. Cool and promising.
- Aug 25, 2018 — New section, Stretching for frozen shoulder —
- Aug 25, 2018 — New section, Strengthening for frozen shoulder —
- Apr 26, 2018 — New section, about Oolo-Austin Trigenics® Procedure (OAT) —
- Jan 25, 2018 — New section, ultrasound — Very “negative”: there’s almost no hope that it works.
- Jan 25, 2018 — Science update — A couple new citations and details about steroid injections.
- Dec 1, 2017 — Improved — Beefed up information on over-the-counter medications.
- Aug 10, 2017 — New section, posture —
- Jul 6, 2017 — Science update — Cited new evidence on the limited benefits of steroid injections for rotator cuff tendinopathy (Mohamadi) — an interesting contrast with the effects of steroids on frozen shoulder.
- Jun 28, 2017 — New section — Important revisions and a new section based on important new evidence (Wong et al) that frozen shoulder is not a self-limiting condition as everyone has assumed for decades.
- May 12, 2017 — New section —
- May 12, 2017 — Improvements — Added more movement recommendations.
- May 12, 2017 — New section —
- Feb 18, 2017 — Improved — Added some history, which is nice new context for this topic.
- Jan 20, 2017 — New section — A substantial and interesting reader-submitted case study plus a little commentary.
- Nov 29, 2016 — New section, shrunk not stuck —
- Nov 28, 2016 — Science update — Revised introduction to treatments, citing Diercks as an interesting example.
- Nov 28, 2016 — New section, article abstract —
- Oct 15, 2016 — Science update — Littlewood et al now provides some more substantive support for the theory of functional freezing and related rehabilitation methods.
- Oct 3, 2016 — Clarification — Added an interesting clarification about my wife’s strange experience with frozen shoulder.
- Oct 3, 2016 — Improvements — Many miscellaneous improvements.
- Sep 22, 2016 — Expanded — Added much more information.
- Sep 22, 2016 — Science update — Added brief discussion of rotator cuff abnormalities in asymptomatic people.
- Sep 14, 2016 — Improvements — Editing, and added a diagram of the hypothetical relationship between adhesive and functional freezing.
- Sep 8, 2016 — Revision — Some revisions to the discussion of treating systemic inflammation with diet, and added an important link out to a new article on that topic.
- Sep 4, 2016 — Expanded — Added more information.
- Sep 4, 2016 — New section —
- Aug 13, 2016 — Expanded — Added information about joint capsule inflating.
- Aug 13, 2016 — Expanded — Added interesting new evidence about arthrographic distension.
- Aug 13, 2016 — New section —
- Aug 12, 2016 — Expanded — Added recommendation to try a ketogenic diet.
- Aug 5, 2016 — Science update — Added more general evidence about treatment efficacy.
- Jul 27, 2016 — Improvements — Several clarifications about diagnosis, and some new citations and expert quotes. Added a paragraph about x-rays.
- Jul 20, 2016 — New section —
- Jul 20, 2016 — New section —
- Jul 20, 2016 — Science update — Added more information about range of motion and reliability of assessment of ROM.
- Jul 18, 2016 — Improvements — Expanded and added several new citations.
- Jul 18, 2016 — Minor addition — Added a little about smoking as a risk factor.
- Jul 18, 2016 — Minor addition — Added footnote about other frozen joints, like frozen hips.
- Jul 9, 2016 — New section —
- Jul 9, 2016 — Upgraded — Article is now substantive enough for removal of “half-baked” disclaimer, and a title change from frozen shoulder “primer” to “guide.”
- Jul 5, 2016 — New section —
- Jun 16, 2016 — New section —
- Jun 5, 2016 — New section —
- May 31, 2016 — Miscellaneous improvements — Added links to several authoritative/useful sources. General editing to clean up and clarify recent additions. More descriptive headings. Added related reading recommendations.
- May 7, 2016 — New section —