Frozen shoulder · Adhesive capsulitis
Your arm stopped going up.
The capsule around the shoulder joint has tightened. It often follows weeks of keeping the arm still, and it does ease, slowly.
A measured plan keeps your days going while it eases, and shows you every degree you win back.
94°
starts in the capsule
First visit · arm forward
ExampleToday · Visit 9
The same measurement at every visit, against the same first number. Your physiotherapist shows you the line before anything else.
128°
Today · 94° at the first visit · goal 150°
Frozen shoulder · arm forward · Example
01 · Where it starts
Usually stillness, not strain.
Weeks of keeping the arm still, after a fall, a fracture or surgery.
Sometimes nothing you can name. That is common, and nothing you did wrong.
02 · How we look
Five numbers, first visit.
- Arm forward
- 94°
- Arm out to the side
- 80°
- Turning the arm out
- 20°
- Hand behind your back
- Belt
- Pain at night
- 6 / 10
All five are kept on your record and taken again at every visit.
03 · The plan
Usually Resolve.
One plan, priced once, run in the three phases on How we treat. Your physiotherapist sets its length at the first visit, from your numbers.
04 · At home
Little and often.
A few gentle movements, a few times a day, shown to you at the clinic and checked at every visit. Never through sharp pain.
05 · What it costs
Rate card first.
No amounts here. You see the plan’s price before anything starts.
How we chargeYour first visit
Pain is the last signal.
Your first visit sets your numbers