Want to know how to treat frozen shoulder? Dr. Harish Ghoota here talks about frozen shoulder. It is a common term used by doctors and patients. It is nothing but a painful & stiff shoulder. There are many reasons for painful & stiff shoulder like rotator cuff, inflammation of capsules, arthritis in shoulder & many more. Basic Treatment which recommended physiotherapy, exercise, joint injections and surgeries.

So when Dr. Harish Ghoota see a frozen shoulder as a shoulder specialist the first thing which I he would like to find out is why is this shoulder frozen, why is it stiff, and why is it painful and for that one very useful investigation, very useful test is MRI scan. So he would not hesitate to ask for MRI scan in a patient who has a significant pain feel and stiff shoulder. Because treatment of this shoulder is different for different causes so unless he know what has caused it he cannot treat it correctly. So please do get MRI scans if you are advice because many shoulder problems can be diagnosed or can be found only if you do the MRI scan.

Now coming to the treatment of course.

If you treat the cause accordingly your shoulder will recover better. There are a number of different treatments which are. So one common treatment in the shoulder is physiotherapy.

Apart from physiotherapy we have joint injections where we inject certain anti-inflammatory medicines in the shoulder which help the shoulder to become pain-free faster and to get the range of motion the flexibility faster. Many patients of painful and stiff shoulder can be completely cured by arthroscopic surgery so it’s not even an open surgery, we just make small holes to put the arthroscope or a telescope inside the joint and looking on the camera screen. We can treat the problem which is causing the pain and stiffness and the patient recovers much faster than he would without the surgery or with other kind of open surgeries.