Do You Have Frozen Shoulder?

How to diagnose and treat the painful condition

- Lisa Bendall

WHEN KATJA EDLER noticed tightness around her right shoulder in the summer of 2017, she assumed she'd been spending too much time at her desk. A 44-year-old book editor who lives in Ehningen, Germany, Edler was in Dubai for her husband's job and working from home. About three months later, her symptoms worsened: “I got up one morning in a lot of pain and couldn't lift my arm.” Edler met with an orthopaedist, who took an X-ray and then identified the problem: She had frozen shoulder.