A 65-year old Malay lady was always fatigued. She could not walk 15 flights of stairs without getting breathless. She was sleepless night after night due to arm pain. She used rubs and also drank ginger tea (teh halia) which helped. However, she still could not sleep at night because the hand was painful in all positions except when it hung down. She could only sleep on her right and back. The pain affected the neck, back and arm.
X-ray did not show fracture. MRI showed frozen shoulder, and herniated and fused 3,4,5,6 vertebrae. That had been for some time and some muscles (for eg majora pectoralis), under the lower arm and on the top of the palm seemed dead and wasted (jadi kempis).
An angiogram was done.
She was diagnosed with 3 medical problems: frozen shoulder, herniated & fused vertebrae and mild ischaemic heart disease.
She did daily neck traction. She was told her frozen shoulder would take 18 months to heal.
She was prescribed aspirin, blood-thinning, heart medications and anti-cholesterol.
She needed prayers.
More on frozen shoulder:
http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00071
http://www.aafp.org/afp/1999/0401/p1843.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive_capsulitis_of_shoulder
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