Why do I feel sore shoulders when I wake up from sleep? Beware of frozen shoulder

If you wake up with shoulder pain, you should be alert to the possibility of frozen shoulder. You should pay more attention to the early symptoms of frozen shoulder. Common symptoms include shoulder pain, joint stiffness, tenderness, fear of cold, and severe activities will be restricted. Especially in winter, you should keep the area around your shoulder warm.

1. Shoulder pain is definitely one of the early symptoms of frozen shoulder. The pain of early frozen shoulder is paroxysmal and the pain is mild. It usually does not cause patients to pay attention. Most of them are chronic attacks.

2. Joint stiffness and limited shoulder joint movement are one of the early symptoms of frozen shoulder, which usually appears 3-4 weeks after the pain symptoms become obvious. At first, I was afraid to move due to pain and muscle spasms. Later, the soft tissues such as the joint capsule and ligaments adhered and contracted, causing obvious stiffness of the shoulder joint.

3. Limited joint movement. In the early stages of frozen shoulder, there may be symptoms of limited joint movement, mainly manifested as difficulty in abducting, raising, and internally and externally rotating the arm.

4. Tenderness Most patients with early-stage periarthritis of the shoulder can feel obvious tenderness points around the shoulder joint, most of which are in the tendon groove of the long head of the biceps brachii. Subacromial bursa, coracoid process, supraspinatus muscle attachment point, etc.

5. Fear of cold. Patients with early-stage periarthritis of the shoulder will experience the phenomenon of being afraid of cold in the shoulders. Many patients wrap their shoulders with cotton pads all year round, and even in summer, they dare not let the wind blow on their shoulders.