Direct cold wind on the shoulders for a long
duration makes joint of shoulders stiff and make frozen shoulders.
Usage of air-conditioner has been increasing
caused by heat wave. We know overexposure to air conditioning causes us to get
sick, but it also can cause arthritis
Recently, the patients who are suffering frozen
shoulders are easily getting worse their disease with ceiling air-conditioners
which make win directly come to their shoulders.
▶Overexposure to air conditioning makes joint, muscle of shoulders pain= Frozen shoulders make shoulder to be stiffen and felt like it’s frozen. Articular capsule covering shoulders joint become have inflammatory and thick.
If frozen shoulders patients get cold wind
directly for a long duration, the muscle around the joint get stiffen so joint
also get stiffen. Stiffness by cold wind disturbs blood circulation and it
makes pain of muscle and ligament even worse.
Main symptom of frozen shoulders makes you have
restriction for doing exercise. At first, moving shoulders inside makes you
feel uncomfortable, the more symptoms are bad, the more hurt you feel when you
move your shoulders.
The pain during night is worse than during the
day. When the pain is extremely bad, it makes you not easy to fall asleep.
▶Treatment
for frozen shoulders, proper treatment should be considered by the degree of
the symptoms. = The surgery is not always essential even if you have diagnosed
frozen shoulders. If it is the beginning of disease, medicines, injection,
physical therapy and movement therapy may help symptoms to be better.
The treatment will proceed with increasing
range of exercise step by step. Warm compress may be along with for soft muscle
and blood circulation.
However, if these not-surgical treatments are
not helping enough or the disease proceeded already over the middle of period, surgery
can be considered. Articular endoscopy is a typical surgery.
▶Wearing
long sleeve shirts = Maintain 5-6 degree of temperature gap between in and
outside to prevent extreme pain caused by frozen shoulders when you use
air-conditioners.
Put on light long sleeve shirts to not get
direct cold wind, stretch out shoulders to circulate your blood and apply a warm
pack in a spare time.
Joint is sensitive to changing of temperature
or humidity, be sure not to be exposed to cold wind from the air-conditioner to
relieve pain. If pain is severe and stays for a long time, proper treatment is
required under the doctor’s accurate procedure.
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