“The majority of my patients are golfers, and they love the simulator,” aid Spencer Summers, MD, a hip and knee surgeon at HSS Florida. “It’s the kind that professionals use, with a huge screen that could make you feel like you’re at a golf course in Augusta or Pebble Beach. It’s very impressive.” 

Utilizing advanced radar-tracking technology, the simulator captures detailed data on swing mechanics, ball launch and flight patterns. “The wealth of information enables our physical therapists to design highly personalized rehabilitation plans in a safe, controlled environment,” said Ryan Simovitch, MD, director of the shoulder division and co-medical director at HSS Florida. 

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The condition, technically known as adhesive capsulitis, is pain that occurs when there’s inflammation around the shoulder joint that eventually leads to “freezing,” meaning the shoulder’s range of motion is limited and the arm can’t move or rise above a certain point. It often occurs in one arm, without injury, and is experienced in three stages. The length of each stage varies, but on average, each stage lasts four months. In the first stage, there is inflammation that results in intense pain. When the pain becomes less acute, the shoulder sticks, or freezes, in a certain position in the second stage, restricting mobility. 

“The most common thing that I will hear from my patients is, ‘I can’t take my bra on and off. I can’t turn my arm in. I can’t reach to put something on the top shelf. I can’t get my jacket on,’” said Dr. Woolridge. Mobility finally returns in the third, thawing stage.

“We don’t want people out there just suffering in silence and just not able to use their arm for a long time, developing atrophy or weakness of the arm because they’re just like, ‘Oh, whatever, it’ll get better eventually," Dr. Woolridge said. “And then three, four years later, they’re still having issues with that shoulder.”

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Shoulder pain is one of the most common muscle or joint complaints, and the causes can include arthritis, frozen shoulder, impingement or a weak rotator cuff. “It’s like a rite of passage,” said Dr. Gulotta. “Most people are going to get shoulder pain at some point in their life.”

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“They actually have a name for it in other cultures,” Laura Moore, MD, PhD, sports medicine surgeon at HSS, tells TODAY.com. “In China, they call it the 50-year-old shoulder.”

Frozen shoulder starts with often unexplained shoulder pain that many attribute to an injury and progresses into stiffness that immobilizes the arm completely.

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In some cases, said Dr. Ode, frozen shoulder follows an injury or surgery that keeps you from moving the joint (what doctors call “secondary” frozen shoulder). Usually, though, frozen shoulder just happens with no identifiable cause.

Some other higher-risk groups include people with diabetes or thyroid disease, Dr. Ode says. It’s not clear why, but researchers speculate that the inflammation caused by those diseases might be one reason.

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Those experiencing shoulder pain could have a condition called "frozen shoulder," which mostly occurs in middle age.

Frozen shoulder is an inflammatory condition that creates scar tissue around the shoulder joint capsule, causing pain, according to Samantha Stuek, MD, sports medicine physician at HSS. 

"This significant increase in pain comes seemingly out of the blue, more at night," Dr. Stuek said.

"And all of a sudden, this progressive decrease in range of motion [gets] to the point where people are coming in saying they can't lift their arm, they're having trouble putting their jacket on, they can't wash their hair and are having pain with any of those motions," explained Dr. Stuek. 

The average age of onset for frozen shoulder is 55, and the condition is about four times more common in women, according to Dr. Stuek.

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Dr. Fu explained, “The shoulder capsule — it’s a thin lining around the joint itself — has to maintain a delicate balance between flexibility, pliability and also integrity. Once you get into this cascade of a little bit of inflammation or microtrauma that leads to more inflammation, that just sets off the whole cycle of adhesive capsulitis, where the capsule, which is normally really thin like a piece of tissue paper almost, then becomes really thick and like cardboard, and that’s how your shoulder gets tight and you lose range of motion.”

Dr. Fu noted that early detection is important and “the hallmark of treatment for frozen shoulder is physical therapy and stretching.”

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Dr. Shubin Stein explained what happens to the body with frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis. “The name adhesive capsulitis says a lot because the [shoulder] capsule is the problem — there’s inflammation of the sac the shoulder lives in, and adhesive means it gets stuck after a while,” she cited.

There are three stages of frozen shoulder. Early on, the shoulder hurts and the pain gradually worsens. The second stage is the frozen stage, when the shoulder loses range of motion and “the capsule becomes thicker from inflammation,” noted Dr. Shubin Stein. The third stage is known as the thawing phase, which brings a gradual improvement to the shoulder’s range of motion.

Early diagnosis is important, noted Dr. Shubin Stein. “Early intervention and diligent treatment make this a much quicker process if we catch it before scarring occurs.”

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