frozen shoulder

If your shoulder suddenly hurts and you did nothing to it, you may have adhesive capsulitis, or commonly known as frozen shoulder.

And today I'm going to walk you through what it actually is, what is actually happening to your shoulder, and how I treat it in my clinic, because three out of four people who get frozen shoulder are women in perimenopause, and that is not a coincidence.

So let me set the scene.

Out of nowhere, your shoulder hurts.

So as you're waiting, within a week or so, you can no longer raise your arm.

Seriously, you walk into my office like this.

You can no longer raise your arm, and when you go finally see your orthopedic, they say, "Oh, yeah, you've got a frozen shoulder." And you're like, "I did nothing to it." Well, here's the news.

You did nothing at all other than you lost your estrogen and you're highly inflamed.

I, I think when I first met you, I was definitely in that category.

Being a swimmer, but I have very mobile shoulder blades.

Shoulder girdle, right.

Yes.

So my-

This is key for a healthy upper body, and, and I mean, the, the, the shoulders and the, the impact of shoulder motion on the thoracic spine, osteoporosis of the upper back, um, breathing, uh, you know, they all go hand in hand or shoulder and shoulder, I guess.

I don't, I don't know.

Um, but it's really important to l- to learn this distinction so that you can feed and water this capsule well, which is different than the shoulders overall, right? Shoulder goal- shoulder girdle complex is what you call sort of the whole thing, but we're talking about the health of the capsule.

As women go through premenopause and have chaotic hormone levels or then menopause where estrogen declines, we see an increase in inflammation.

So increase in joint pain, increase in things like frozen shoulder.

We see a spike in women over the age of 50 in terms of, you know, women being more likely than men to develop arthritis.

And then in terms of bone health, we know that in general, women and men are over the age of 30 when we peak in our bone density, we typically are losing maybe 1% of our bone density per year.

So the osteoclasts are the cells that kind of break down bone.

So sort of net positive of bone building or maintaining bone density when estrogen is present.

So in general, as women go through premenopause and have sort of chaotic hormone levels or then menopause where estrogen declines, we see an increase in inflammation, so increase in joint pain, increase in things like frozen shoulder.

We see a spike in women over the age of 50 in terms of women being more likely than men to develop arthritis.

I appreciate Rebel and the team.

They've got my books up there, The Frozen Shoulder and They Call Me Harriet.

You know, I have written two different books.

You can get them on the MagnoliaBeeWellness.com site.

In my book that we just had up, I wrote two.

One is on Frozen Shoulder.

The other one is They Call Me Harriet.

I wrote sort of a little poetry prose in there about the mask and what the mask does.

And then when they accumulate, that's how people start having shoulder pain.

And if you don't pay attention, it becomes frozen shoulder.

So if you have minor shoulder pain, you go to your traditional Western medicine doctors or even orthopedic doctors.

They just tell you to take painkiller and rest or use ice or do some physical therapy.

They don't really tell you to pay attention to this minor symptoms.

Yes.

So it's interesting you bring up frozen shoulder because when I was in perimenopause, I woke up one day and I went into the kitchen to reach for a cup.

in my cupboard and I couldn't lift my arms.