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Unfreezing the Mystery of Frozen Shoulder: A Faster Road to Recovery

• Ray Miller

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Struggling with the agony and limitations of frozen shoulder? You're not alone, and the truth about this condition might surprise you. Join me, Ray Miller, as I peel back the layers of adhesive capsulitis and reveal how recovery doesn't have to be a multi-year marathon of pain. With over 27 years of healing experience, I'm here to shatter myths and share a beacon of hope that significant improvements are possible within the first month of a right, multifaceted treatment approach—without the excruciating pain of traditional methods.

In our latest episode, I take you through an unconventional yet effective journey to reclaiming shoulder mobility. We'll explore why inflammation isn't always the villain in the narrative of frozen shoulder and why steroid injections might not be the magic bullet they're often touted to be. I'll share my personal evolution in treating this mysterious ailment from a perspective that promises more comfort and quicker gains. Whether you're a sufferer, a caregiver, or just someone fascinated by the body's healing capabilities, this conversation is poised to equip you with the knowledge and tools to tackle frozen shoulder head-on.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to Ray the Healer, the only podcast created to help you get back to the best version of yourself. For over 27 years, ray Miller has been helping people stay healthy, active and pain-free. If you're suffering from acute or chronic pain, anxiety, ptsd, trauma or chronic illness, ray the Healer can help you regain your health, vitality and an amazing inner sense of power and joy. And now, please welcome Ray the Healer.

Speaker 2:

Welcome everybody. Hope you're having a great day today. Thanks for joining me. Today we're going to discover some facts and myths about frozen shoulder.

Speaker 2:

If you experienced frozen shoulder, if you have it or if you know someone who has it, you would know that it's incredibly limiting to your life and incredibly painful, and it's really a mystery, right? So some facts about it. That it's well, the original term is called adhesive capsulitis, right, that's the technical term, right? However, so how they treat it? So, adhesive right in the capsule. So the capsule in your shoulder is adhered and then itis would suggest there's inflammation. So it's treated with physical therapy, steroid shots, anti-inflammatory stuff like that. Okay, it happens most of the time to women. It can happen to men, but it happens to women in their late 40s, 50s and it can happen anytime, but most of the time it's women in that age range age range it could be very, very, very uncomfortable. Like I said before, limiting and confusing, because and I'll tell you in a minute why it's so confusing Okay, so we'll go. So those are some basic facts, but I'm going to give you three myths, because this is important. If you have this, it's important to listen to. This is that actually, there's maybe four myths, but we'll see Three to four myths.

Speaker 2:

So well, the first thing is is that, because it's called adhesive capsulitis, there's always there should be always inflammation in there, in that capsule in your shoulder right? And sometimes there is, but a lot of times there's not. I've seen so many people with frozen shoulder and I have to say, a lot of times there's not. They've had cortisone shots, anti-inflammatories, it doesn't make any difference whatsoever, right? So that's a myth. Is it always inflammation? Definitely not. Is it always inflammation? Definitely not. Sometimes there's none at all. The anti-inflammatories do nothing for it. So you could try doing that, but make sure that if nothing happens no, that's pretty common If nothing happens, you have to get a steroid injection or something like that. Okay, that's myth number one.

Speaker 2:

Myth number two is it should take one to three years to get better. Okay, one to three years. That if you're doing a traditional method, that could happen, right? Traditional method is, you know, anti-inflammatory drugs and some kind of physical therapy, right? In my experience, that's a myth, because when people come in to see me with frozen shoulder because when people come in to see me with frozen shoulder, I have a multifaceted approach that I like to get results pretty much right away, like even small results, like in the first couple sessions, and then build on that. But taking a year or two, that's very prolonged and it's not my experience. You should start feeling a lot better within a month, a lot better, right, and then you build from there. That's in my experience with treating people with frozen shoulder.

Speaker 2:

Another myth is it needs to be very painful to treat, like breaking up adhesions etc. Stuff like that. I will tell you that I used to treat people that way. I used to treat people all the time that way. They'd come in, I'd do deeper body work and adhesions. It was very painful, and trying to force things it was incredibly painful for them. And trying to force things, it was incredibly painful for them and it was actually, you know, wasn't fun treatments. It was a little too painful as well, as it took months, months and months, many months, six months, to get better.

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But I've changed my approach by studying the nervous system for the last 30 years and I have a whole new protocol, because one thing that you know, I found as well, that I treat as well, is there's a stress component, right, and it's more bracing component. So see my podcast on bracing, deep inner bracing, because that's also a component there. So it could be. When I treat people, I always look at old injuries, stress, even old injuries on the other side of their body, it doesn't matter and you know their activities, surgeries, stuff like that, their whole history and you know chronic stress, trauma or where's the bracing going on, right. So I treat frozen shoulder holistically with a whole bunch of techniques where it involves movement, good movement, sound, I mean, many body work, cranial work, all kinds depending on the person, right. So I usually get really good results pretty quickly. So I like to get results a lot quicker than a conventional method, right, and so hopefully that's a little hope for you because we just want to go over those.

Speaker 2:

Just recapping the myths that A there's well. Number one, there's not always inflammation. Number two, it doesn't, it shouldn't take years to get better and it needs to be painful, and you know you need to do deep digging work to feel better, right, and you don't, definitely do not. Those myths are all over the place, right, that's a conventional way of doing it and, like I say, I definitely have other ways of treating it that are much easier, faster and help make you feel better. I hope this was helpful and I really want to talk about my next episode, which is about neck pain. Right, if you know anybody that has neck pain, or you have neck pain, we're going to go into some detail about that. Thanks for joining me today and I hope you have a wonderful day. I'll see you in the next episode.

Speaker 1:

You've been listening to Ray the Healer, the only podcast created to help you get back to the best version of yourself. Ray Miller is the owner and founder of Ray Miller Healing and has been helping people stay healthy, active and pain-free for over 27 years. Ray helps clients with traumatic pasts reclaim their health and their lives by helping them heal from PTSD, anxiety and chronic conditions such as migraines, chronic fatigue and gut health issues, by getting to the root cause of the symptoms. If you're ready to regain your health, vitality and an inner sense of power and joy, connect with Ray at RayTheHealercom. That's RayTheHealercom.