A 57 Years Old Diabetic and Hypertensive Female Patient with Frozen Shoulder

Pooja Tiwari, Ashish Bele*, Nivedita Singh, Mohd. Irshad Qureshi, Rakesh Krishna Kovela

Ravi Nair Physiotherapy College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Frozen shoulder is a condition of adhesive shoulder or capsulitis occurs at the outset painful with later on continuing restricted for both active and passive shoulder joint range of motion, this inflammatory condition is root of fibrosis in shoulder joint capsule with pain, shoulder stiffness, restrictions in normal movements and shows absolute or nearly absolute recovery with assorted time length. This condition occurs in elderly population common in 4th to 7th decades, women are more prone to have this condition. A 57-year-old female with chief complaint of insidious onset pain often with aggravating pain and gradually decreased normal range of motion. The abundant level of evidence for Physical therapy in treatment of frozen shoulder is a specific manual treatment should be merged with advisable exercise or normal performance within the limits of pain that reached normal or simply painless self-shoulder active motion gives better results with intensive Physiotherapy. This case report concluded that the frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis is a secondary complication to Diabetes which leads to Hypertension in 57 years old female. Physiotherapist need to take care of hypertension while rehabilitating frozen shoulder patients.

Keywords:

Adhesive capsulitis, Arthroscopic Release, Painful stiff shoulder, Diabetes, Hypertension