FROZEN SHOULDER TREATMENT · KINGS CROSS & HAMPSTEAD, LONDON
Frozen shoulder treatment matched to the phase you are actually in.
Frozen shoulder treatment in Kings Cross and Hampstead, London. Hands-on soft tissue work and loading matched to the phase your shoulder is in, reviewed as it changes.
Book the assessment on its own if you prefer. Booking the full programme saves you £129, which is the assessment fee exactly.
907 appointments. 710 clients. Rated 5.0 from 145+ reviews. ISRM Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapist.
Why frozen shoulder is not a stiff muscle.
A frozen shoulder is a problem of the capsule around the joint, not the muscles over it. That is why rubbing the shoulder harder achieves nothing, and why the restriction is still there when somebody else lifts your arm for you. The capsule has tightened, and it changes over time on its own schedule.
It also moves through phases. Pain leads at first. Stiffness takes over as the pain settles. Movement comes back gradually after that. What treatment should be doing is different in each one, and working the wrong phase hard is how people end up more sore and no freer.
So this is not sold as a fix in a fixed number of weeks. It is a course of work matched to the phase you are in, reviewed as that phase changes.
THE PROGRAMME
Frozen Shoulder Support.
Your assessment, your plan, and a course of hands-on soft tissue treatment matched to the phase your shoulder is in, with the same practitioner throughout. We work on what the shoulder will accept now: settling the pain and the guarding around it, holding on to the range you have, and rebuilding strength and control as movement returns. The hands-on work changes the day to day; your home exercises hold it between visits.
Assessment.
We establish which phase the shoulder is in, how much range you have, what is pain and what is true restriction, and we screen for the conditions frozen shoulder tends to travel with.
Tension Release.
Hands-on soft tissue work on the guarding and the tissue around the joint, pitched to what the shoulder will take that day rather than forced.
Strength Rebuild.
Range and loading work matched to the phase, progressed as the shoulder allows rather than to a schedule.
Frozen Shoulder Support · 10 sessions · £945
Book the assessment on its own if you prefer. Booking the full programme saves you £129, which is the assessment fee exactly.
What is included.
- ✓A full assessment, a red-flag screen, and a plan written for you
- ✓A course of hands-on soft tissue treatment over the phase your shoulder is in
- ✓Written notes and home exercises between visits
- ✓A progress reassessment
- ✓The same practitioner throughout
Reviews
What our clients say.
Verified reviews from Google, Fresha and Treatwell.
"I've had sports massage from probably eight different therapists over ten years of running. Alexander is in a different category. He explained what was actually happening in my IT band before touching it, which no one has ever done. Three sessions and the knee issue I'd had for two years is gone. I don't say that lightly."
Sarah M.
"Chronic upper back tension from desk work. I'd tried everything, osteopathy, physio, regular massage. Nothing stuck for more than a week. Alexander found a restriction in my thoracic spine that nobody had identified before and worked on it systematically across four sessions. Six months later and it hasn't come back."
James T.
"Booked the clinical assessment because I'd been told different things by three different physios and had no idea who was right. Alexander's assessment was the most thorough I've had. The written report explained my shoulder issue in a way I actually understood. The treatment plan was logical, not generic. Worth every penny just for the clarity."
Priya K.
What a frozen shoulder actually is.
Frozen shoulder, also called adhesive capsulitis, is a thickening and tightening of the capsule that surrounds the shoulder joint. Because the restriction is in the joint itself rather than the muscle around it, the movement is limited whether you lift the arm yourself or somebody lifts it for you. That is the clearest thing separating it from a rotator cuff problem, where the arm can usually still be moved for you.
Outward rotation is usually the first movement to go. Reaching behind your back, getting an arm into a coat sleeve, or turning the palm outwards with the elbow tucked in are where people notice it first. Pain at night, particularly lying on that side, is common early on.
It is seen more often in people with diabetes and in people with thyroid conditions, and it can follow a spell of the arm being kept still after an injury or an operation. If none of those has been looked at, your assessment is a sensible prompt to get it checked.
Common signs of frozen shoulder
- ✓Losing outward rotation first: reaching behind your back, or into a coat sleeve
- ✓Night pain, often worst lying on that side
- ✓Restriction that is there whether you move the arm or somebody else does
- ✓Pain that came on without an obvious injury
- ✓A shoulder that has been getting stiffer over weeks or months
When a frozen shoulder needs a doctor.
A shoulder that locked up straight after a fall or a dislocation, pain alongside a fever or feeling unwell, or an arm you genuinely cannot move needs medical review rather than soft tissue treatment. Frozen shoulder is also seen more often alongside diabetes and thyroid conditions, so if neither has been checked we will suggest you speak to your GP. We screen at your assessment and refer you on when that is the right call.
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