Frozen shoulder

rogerblack

Addressing DLA.
Mobility in terms of DLA specifically means ability to walk outdoors, and find your way around on public transport.

It would seem unlikely that this would be affected at all.

Care needs - if your 'only' disability is the total inability to use one arm, I have a hard time seeing that you can meet the 'cooking test' - it is annoying to cook with one arm, but there are plenty of very simple devices that would allow it.

You do not have care needs at night - simply waking up or having to shift position is not a care need - only if you needed someone to help you.
Having someone there to help or watch over you is unlikely to change the outcome.

Being unable to use one arm makes lots of tasks more difficult - but it generally doesn't make them impossibly difficult or slow - with the proper adaptions.

bluebird

krisskross wrote: »

I wouldn't think that DLA would be awarded for a variable condition like frozen shoulder.

OP ask about all treatments. I had steroid injections, physiotherapy, used a tens machine. It gradually got better but did take a year. You have to adapt your activities to avoid the pain and if it was like mine it was agonising but stopped as soon as I stopped moving my arm, so painkillers don't help.

With DLA restrictions on how long you have to have the problem before being able to claim I would suggest that this benefit would be a non starter.

Good advice, I had the exact thing happen to me steroid injectiong helped a bit took mine almost a year to loosen but you have to do the physio every single day else it will stay painful and not move.work through the pain the more you move it the less it hurts sounds crazy but it works.

formaldehyde_perfume

My mum had a frozen shoulder, the only thing that helped her was physio exercises so I would say go to your GP and ask for a physio appointment. You can also ask for hydrotherapy but they usually only give 4-6 sessions so it's unlikely you will get any real benefit from it if you can't carry it on in a leisure pool. I have had acupuncture on the NHS, again it was only 4 sessions but it was great for me as I was finding it hard to do the exercises I needed to, it helped ease the pain and stiffness which meant I could do my exercises and I gradually built on those.

gardengrower

Acupuncture does help frozen shoulder and it can help long term injuries, the key is to get Acupuncture as soon as you have a diagnosis..but, it can and will help/alleviate and create you non-dependant on Acupuncture even after a long term injury, like someone else said, it gave her the ability to start doing exercises/easing the pain, so she/you can rebuild movement/strength on your own accord. Would highly recommend Acupuncture, it is not a dependent form of treatment, what is a dependent form of treatment is pain killers, which just 'mask' the underlying problem, only treating the symptom/symptoms(pain) and not addressing the root or issue of the injury. Hope you are out of pain soonest