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Living with frozen shoulder: ‘It was as if someone had been hitting my arm with a baseball bat’
The painful and debilitating condition can spring up out of nowhere and can leave sufferers struggling to even walk the dog
It started with shoulder pain, sharp and burning as if the muscles has been set alight. Breathing became uncomfortable. I had to steel myself to cough. The damage might have come from holding up the hefty telephoto lens while photographing birds on a nearby wetland or from sitting at a desk with my left arm – the afflicted one – almost immobile for hours. Or it might have come from something sneakier that developed unnoticed until it crossed a threshold.
I was certain the pain would resolve itself in a few days – then a few more days, and a few more after that. My mistake.
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