Home remedies · Back, muscles & joints
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Lean forward, support yourself with the good hand, let the affected arm hang and swing it by moving the trunk — not the shoulder. Twenty circles each way, twice a day.
The arm moves without the painful muscles having to work. It keeps the joint going while active lifting hurts.
Replaces neither physiotherapy nor assessment. A frozen shoulder runs its course over months anyway.
Not after a fall with suspected fracture or dislocation, and not with pain plus fever.
Have it assessed rather than treated at home: back pain with numbness in the saddle area, disturbed bladder or bowel function, weakness or fever. A joint that cannot bear weight after an injury, or is deformed. A one-sided swollen, warm leg.