The following symptoms and complaints may indicate frozen shoulder (frozen shoulder):
- See also under classification: staging of frozen shoulder.
Idiopathic frozen shoulder typically progresses in three stages:
- Freezing phase (freezing phase):
- Sudden, rapidly progressive pain in the shoulder joint (mainly at night), radiating to the insertion of the deltoid muscle.
- Movement restriction
- Duration 10-36 weeks on average
- Frozen phase (stiffening phase):
- The pain slowly receding
- Increase in movement restriction; global, concentric movement restriction reaches its maximum.
- Thawing phase (solution phase):
- Pain is no longer present
- Mobility improves spontaneously increasingly.
- Duration from 5 months to 2 years (longest phase of the disease).
