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Chronic shoulder pain, declared functionally one-armed

Filmed in Denmark · 2015

A care-home worker, injured at work four years earlier.

The case

After the injury she lost her job and went through rehabilitation, shoulder surgery and six months at a specialised pain clinic, where the physiotherapists declined hands-on treatment because of her severe pain and discharged her as functionally one-armed. Four years on a cocktail of pain medication brought no relief, alongside a daily headache that woke her at night.

What changed

Although she had been written off as functionally one-armed, it took under thirty minutes for her to regain most of her shoulder movement. Her question afterwards: why had no one offered this in four years of suffering?

A single case from Josef’s practice, filmed before and after. Individual results, not a guarantee; not every case responds this way.

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