Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein

Like if you look down and you try to like rotate your arms out to the side and you see even just like a 10 degree difference.

Like that's not normal.

Like normally you're going to have normal range of motion.

Yeah.

I tell people this all the time, especially when they're in treatment for frozen shoulder.

Like just check yourself.

Make sure you're not losing it after we gain it.

But go see someone early.

This is not.

Ideally, I think an orthopedic surgeon or you could see like a primary care sports medicine doctor, someone who will give you a glenohumeral joint injection, an injection into the ball and socket joint.

you're basically trying to combat or reverse as soon as possible the inflammation of the lining of the joint.

And frozen shoulder is the best indication for use of a steroid injection, I think, in all of orthopedics because it is not a Band-Aid.

It's like a cure.

Is it ever too late?

So if you're three or four months into the process and you've already started to lose motion, there is less efficacy of the injection.

I'll still give it to people because they're still in pain.

It just doesn't work as well.

If I catch someone within three months of onset of the symptoms and I give them an injection, it'll often...

restore their emotion, make the pain go away.

And half of those people, I never see them again.