file.newsgroup.med.59336 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Philippe Lebrun)
Subject: Re: Frozen shoulder and lawn mowing
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Alice Sanders) writes:
|> Ihave had a frozen shoulder for over a year or about a year. It is still
|> partially frozen, and I am still in physical therapy every week. But the
|> pain has subsided almost completely. UNTIL last week when I mowed the
|> lawn for twenty minutes each, two days in a row. I have a push type power
|> mower. The pain started back up a little bit for the first time in quite
|> a while, and I used ice and medicine again. Can anybody explain why this
|> particular activity, which does not seem to stress me very much generally,
|> should cause this shoulder problem?
You need to use your shoulder muscles to push the mower. If you haven't been
doing much exercise, as I suppose you haven't, then a constant 20 minute
long effort can cause stiffness and cramps.
-philippe