Frozen shoulder - an effective method of treatment.

Although there has been a considerable amount of material published on the pathology and the probable aetiology of the frozen shoulder, the same cannot be said of suggestions for an effective method of physical treatment for all stages of the condition. Some authors claim that exercises mar the recovery process (Cyriax, 1957). Others have found that the condition runs a self-limiting course of anything up to three years, and any physical treatment is "notoriously unsuccessful" in altering this pattern (Crisp and Hume Kendall, 1955). However, all agree that the recovery of frozen shoulders, treated or untreated, is prolonged, and in the acute phase of the condition, physiotherapy plays no part in the treatment of pain (Cyriax, Ibid., Crisp and Hume Kendall, Ibid., Stening, 1961).