Do You Have Frozen Shoulder?
Reader's Digest India|April 2022
How to diagnose and treat the painful condition
Lisa Bendall
Do You Have Frozen Shoulder?

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.

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