I haven’t updated this website in a while, but happily I had my MRI review last Monday. When I arrived at the appointment I was surprised by what my doctor told me. The results of the MRI came back without any indications of injury or signs of frozen shoulder.
He took the CD of my MRI and put it in his laptop, and we had a look at the images together. He pointed out some of the small injuries that the MRI technician found my shoulder, but overall was surprised not to see any other signs, or should I say any signs of frozen shoulder. In fact, when my doctor spoke with the technician and told him that I had a severe range of motion limitation, the technician was quite surprised.
At this point he decided to give me another review had me sit down on the bed in his office and proceeded to test my shoulder again. Although the range of motion had improved a little bit in the week since I’d seen him there were obviously still issues with my shoulder.
Seeing that I had this major range of motion issue that is common with frozen shoulder he decided to proceed with the usual aggressive treatment, which includes cortisone shots and physical therapy. My first shot is tomorrow, Monday, and he has me buying five ampules of cortisone shots, which will be used over five weeks of cortisone and physiotherapy.
I took some time to research cortisone because it does have a bad reputation, however in cases like frozen shoulder it seems pretty common. The main concern is usually how the injection is done, but I’m not too worried because my doctor is one of the better sports medicine doctors in our province and has worked with Olympic level athletes in the past, so I have a feeling that his injection techniques should be okay.
I think over the next few days we will have a better idea of what’s going on with my shoulder as the cortisone takes effect and hopefully allows the range of motion to improve. From what I have read the range of motion does not approve either the cortisone was ejected in the wrong place or isn’t going to have a positive effect with my injury.
More tomorrow!
