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Showing posts with label pain and spasm. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Patients with chronic bursitis - symptoms-treatment

Patients with chronic bursitis should become detectives, ferreting out their particular causes of trouble. For example, a typist noticed that her attacks of shoulder bursitis developed in late spring, and she could trace them to the fact that the air conditioning was turned on then and she worked directly in the path of the cold air stream. 

Another person found that his attacks decreased markedly when he gave up being a fresh-air enthusiast in winter and kept his bedroom windows almost completely closed. 

Some persons must modify their work or sports activities to prevent the pain of chronic bursitis. Sometimes in chronic bursitis, if pain and disability justify it, surgery may be used to remove deposits of calcium material which collect in some chronically inflamed bursas, or to eliminate any adhesions that may be present.


 A frozen shoulder is the result of long-standing shoulder bursitis which has not been treated properly or has been unusually resistant to treatment. The pain and spasm lead to disuse of the shoulder joint and atrophy, or wasting away, of muscle, bone, and joint substance. Adhesions, too, may form around the joint. In time, the shoulder becomes immobile or "frozen." However, with physiotherapy, even such a shoulder may be made to develop good function again.