Periarthritis of shoulder, also known as "fifty shoulders" in daily life, mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people over 50 years old. It is a joint disease with limited shoulder movement and pain caused by soft tissue adhesion around the shoulder joint. The main features are shoulder pain and limited movement, especially shoulder movements such as shoulder lifting, back lifting and side lifting. Although most of scapulohumeral periarthritis can heal itself, some patients are getting worse and worse because they don't exercise correctly or have some misunderstandings in fitness.

Myth 1:

The first misunderstanding in the treatment of scapulohumeral periarthritis is that scapulohumeral periarthritis is a self-healing disease, which needs no treatment or self-care. Therefore, patients with scapulohumeral periarthritis should practice less during exercise and let them recover slowly. This is definitely not true. If you have scapulohumeral periarthritis and you ignore it, your scapulohumeral periarthritis may not heal itself, and it will get worse and worse.

Myth 2:

The second misunderstanding in the treatment of scapulohumeral periarthritis is that scapulohumeral periarthritis is the adhesion of surrounding soft tissues. I can do more activities to spread this adhesion tissue, isn't it good? Therefore, patients with scapulohumeral periarthritis should practice their shoulders more when exercising. For example, swing your arm, or hang the horizontal bar hard, or lift something heavy again and then pull it away. In fact, this is also wrong, which will further aggravate the inflammation around the shoulder joint, make the pain worse, and the limitation of shoulder movement will be more serious.

Should patients with scapulohumeral periarthritis practice their shoulders more or less?