You may be wondering what calcific tendonitis is, if you have recently been diagnosed with this condition. To say it simply, a condition caused by bone deposits causes the shoulder to freeze up and become immobile. For many years, doctors have tried to find the reason for such bone deposits and are still not in total agreement with one another.
Wearing a cast for an extended period because of broken bones, overuse, toting an overly heavy purse and strong arm cleaning may be some of the causes of this condition. Diabetic women over 40 years of age are those who most often suffer from this condition.
You may have discovered your symptoms while dressing, combing or brushing your hair or even trying to reach something on the highest kitchen shelf. Generally, the pain will increase during the night while you try to rest. You may first experience pain while performing some type of overhead activity yet as each day passes there is an increase of pain, followed by losing total range of motion in the shoulder, before you seek the help of a medical professional.
Many times, you can clear calcific tendonitis by following the recommendation of a physical therapist for slow deliberate exercises. You can regain your range of motion at home while doing these exercises, depending upon the severity of your condition. However, you may need to continue these exercises for many months.
If, however, the condition you are exhibiting is slightly more severe, you may be told to attend physical therapy sessions with a physical therapist to make sure you are doing the exercises properly via a supervised rehabilitation program. Performing these exercises tends to create pain, so you should be aware that you will need to work through that pain. You will find that the exercises are meant to increase your muscle strength, as well as the muscle endurance. Plus you will be able to increase flexibility by performing the various stretching exercises recommended.
Often resistance exercises are recommended. This may entail the use of dumbbells or rubber material that gives your shoulder resistance as you try to use it. Pilates exercises have often worked very well in "unfreezing" a shoulder.
NSAIDs or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs injections may also help to treat the condition successfully as well as taking physical therapy. Diagnostic ultrasonography may be necessary because of the accuracy that is required for these types of injections. Friction massages, heat and ice applications of even additional ultrasound treatments, may also be recommendable for relieving the condition of calcific tendonitis.
Finally, you may need to seek more than therapy for your problem, if physical therapy exacerbates the condition rather than helping. At this point surgery is warranted. Most surgeries, though uncommon, will use various arthroscopically surgeries. In other words, they will use cameras inserted into tiny openings made in the skin of your shoulders to do the surgery. The important factor if you need such an operation is that you will then need to do rigorous therapy for a long time!
Wearing a cast for an extended period because of broken bones, overuse, toting an overly heavy purse and strong arm cleaning may be some of the causes of this condition. Diabetic women over 40 years of age are those who most often suffer from this condition.
You may have discovered your symptoms while dressing, combing or brushing your hair or even trying to reach something on the highest kitchen shelf. Generally, the pain will increase during the night while you try to rest. You may first experience pain while performing some type of overhead activity yet as each day passes there is an increase of pain, followed by losing total range of motion in the shoulder, before you seek the help of a medical professional.
Many times, you can clear calcific tendonitis by following the recommendation of a physical therapist for slow deliberate exercises. You can regain your range of motion at home while doing these exercises, depending upon the severity of your condition. However, you may need to continue these exercises for many months.
If, however, the condition you are exhibiting is slightly more severe, you may be told to attend physical therapy sessions with a physical therapist to make sure you are doing the exercises properly via a supervised rehabilitation program. Performing these exercises tends to create pain, so you should be aware that you will need to work through that pain. You will find that the exercises are meant to increase your muscle strength, as well as the muscle endurance. Plus you will be able to increase flexibility by performing the various stretching exercises recommended.
Often resistance exercises are recommended. This may entail the use of dumbbells or rubber material that gives your shoulder resistance as you try to use it. Pilates exercises have often worked very well in "unfreezing" a shoulder.
NSAIDs or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs injections may also help to treat the condition successfully as well as taking physical therapy. Diagnostic ultrasonography may be necessary because of the accuracy that is required for these types of injections. Friction massages, heat and ice applications of even additional ultrasound treatments, may also be recommendable for relieving the condition of calcific tendonitis.
Finally, you may need to seek more than therapy for your problem, if physical therapy exacerbates the condition rather than helping. At this point surgery is warranted. Most surgeries, though uncommon, will use various arthroscopically surgeries. In other words, they will use cameras inserted into tiny openings made in the skin of your shoulders to do the surgery. The important factor if you need such an operation is that you will then need to do rigorous therapy for a long time!
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Tom Nicholson has spent years helping sufferers of carpal tunnel syndrome. Please follow this link to learn more regardingcalcific tendinitis.
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