Part 2: Frozen shoulder everywhere...

... and no consensus at all

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One thing you quickly realize about frozen shoulder, aside from how many people are struggling, is how ridiculously uninformed the medical community is on it.

I heard from women who shuttled from specialist to specialist, each siloed in their area of expertise and not able to see any part of the bigger picture.

One woman I messaged with ended up at an orthopedic surgeon for her frozen shoulder, getting a cortisone shot after being told it would help with mobility for 12 months. A month later the frozen shoulder returned – and she was offered only exploratory surgery. Did the doctor not doing the faintest bit of research? No, because she found the link to thyroid dysfunction all on her own.

“For years I thought I was working out wrong or sleeping wrong,” she told me. “It had to be something I was doing wrong, right?”

As a result of her own research, and tests she later had, she found out her thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels were far outside the opti…