Frozen Shoulder Solved: It's NOT Just Your Shoulder! #shorts

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Example of this, I heard a story. I was listening to a podcast and this woman was being treated for a frozen shoulder.

[00:00:06]And she went to see a new physician because the therapy for her frozen shoulder was a cortisone injection, physical therapy, movement, manual therapy. And she really didn't want to go through with the cortisone injection cuz she didn't want to have a tissue degradation that occurs with it over time. And she wanted to be more natural in her approach. So she sought out a new practitioner. And this practitioner questioned what's going on with her physiology.

[00:00:37]And it turns out that this woman was perimenopausal, had other signs and symptoms in her body showing systemic inflammation and oxidative stress.

[00:00:46]So instead of a cortisone injection, this woman was treated with manual therapy, but on the other side of things from her her PCP, she was given uh uh hormones, uh HRT, uh infla- inflammation um pathway restoration, supplements to treat her antioxidant system, and she also was taught nervous system regulation techniques. And over the course of several months, not only did her shoulder improve, she felt a whole lot better.

[00:01:23]So she got a twofer.

[00:01:25]Not only did she address her her frozen shoulder, but the reality was her frozen shoulder was the end result of things that were going on within her physiology. So once her physiology was addressed, then it reduced the frozen shoulder.

[00:01:42]So that is the key difference between symptom management, which would be just getting a cortisone injection and treating the frozen shoulder with physical therapy, versus systems thinking, looking at how physiology affects overall function.