[watsonsh]

As most of you know I have had a laft frozen shoulder for hmmm lets see 3 years now. Freaking annoying.

I have gained a good amount range back in terms of raising the arm and have decent internal rotation. But my external rotation sucks. its like the shoulder is beyond stuck and it burns and aches all the time. It spasms up all the time and creates these awful headaches. The doc says they are cluster headaches.

Anyway I have seen four orthos for the frozen shoulder including the one that gave me a cortisone shot that made this all worse. The cortison shot heightened a viral infection I ahad and interesting enough

Anyway fast forward and the shoulder has been progressively worse over the last year. Not really range of motion(except external) but pain etc.

So fast forward and I go see a physiatrist that I hear is good (actually trained under the sholder guy that gave me the bad shot) but this guy is all about avoiding surgery.

He does an ultrasound of the shoulder - not something that is done that often, most docs rely on mri's.

Anyway he can see the still frozen part and he also sees that the suprascpular nerve is swollen at the notch, ie impringed which really can't be seen on an mri.

So for all your frzen shoulder guys out there ask for an ultrasound and check out and see if your supracap nerve is part of the problem.