Can exercising shoulder muscles prevent frozen shoulder?

Exercising the shoulder muscles can make them more flexible and prevent them from becoming stiff and sore due to long hours of desk work. If you can exercise your shoulder muscles for a long time, it can help prevent shoulder periarthritis. If you only exercise occasionally, it can only temporarily relieve frozen shoulder or shoulder muscles. Below, I will recommend several exercises that can help you train your shoulder muscles!

1. Circle

Stand with your feet upright, your hands hanging down, find a center point, and draw circles. Draw 40 times forwards and 40 times backwards, once for each arm, once a day.

2. Stick push

Find a stick about 50 cm long, hold it horizontally with both hands, and use the good hand to push the affected hand outward. Just push it outward a few centimeters every day, and repeat until the affected side can do abduction exercises.

3. Shake hands

The patient stands with his back against the wall, or lies on his back on the bed, with his upper arm close to the body and elbow bent, using the elbow as a fulcrum to perform external rotation activities.

4. Handle

The patient stands naturally, with the affected upper limb internally rotated and extended backward, and the healthy hand pulls the affected hand or wrist, gradually pulling it toward the healthy side and upward.

5. Extend the arm

Patients with periarthritis of the shoulder should let their upper limbs hang naturally, straighten their arms, slowly abduct their palms with their palms facing down, and lift them upward with force. After reaching the maximum limit, stop for 10 minutes, then return to the original position and repeat.

6. Shoulder rotation

Patients with periarthritis of the shoulder stand with the affected limb hanging naturally and the elbow straight. The affected arm makes circles from front to top and then back, with the amplitude increasing from small to large, and repeats several times.

The above-mentioned exercise methods can help exercise the shoulder muscles and prevent periarthritis of the shoulder. Prevention is the key to any disease, and frozen shoulder is no exception. It would be best if we could avoid the occurrence of periarthritis of the shoulder. After all, frozen shoulder will affect the quality of life and is difficult to cure completely.