What is frozen shoulder? Symptoms, treatment, risk factors

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA woman felt an ache in her left shoulder just before she turned fifty, and she blamed her mattress, the South China Morning Post reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's a reasonable first guess. The article says she hoped moving house and getting a new bed would fix it.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo she relocated an entire household to clear one mattress. That's the most expensive way I've heard of to rule out a suspect.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the pain continued. She said she kept hoping it would get better, but it didn't.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the new bed has an alibi. The old bed has an alibi. We're looking at a cold case with two cleared mattresses.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's a shoulder, Kenji.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA shoulder that withheld its name for months. Who diagnosed it?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHer doctor, who called it frozen shoulder. The piece covers symptoms, treatment, risk factors and exercises, so there's practical help in there.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorGravity level: a two out of ten.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFine. But the mattress is going to want a statement, and I hear it has retained a lawyer.