Frozen Shoulder as a Presentation of Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

Background: Frozen shoulder is a condition with symptoms of shoulder pain and discomfort that is slow in onset and located around the deltoid insertion and generally resulting in inability to sleep on the affected side. Incidence of frozen shoulder is higher among diabetes mellitus patients but studies are lacking from Indian subcontinent. This study is designed to access incidence of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus among patients with Frozen shoulder. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out in patients of Frozen shoulder attending OPD of Medicine and Orthopaedics Department of UPUMS Saifai, from October 2016 to April 2017. Results: 39.61% patients had undiagnosed DM, 12.39% patients had impaired glucose tolerance and 50.00% patients were euglycemic at the time of presentation among frozen shoulder patients. Conclusion: We conclude that incidence of undiagnosed DM is high among frozen shoulder patients.

Prevalence of frozen shoulder among diabetic patients in Western region of Saudi Arabia

“…According to previous studies, diabetics have a higher pre-valence of frozen-shoulder than non-diabetics, with a prevalence of 11-30% compared to 2-10% in the non-diabetic population (Hsu & Sheu, 2016;Verma et al, 2017). Another study from Lahore looked at 80 diabetic individuals and discovered that 41.3 percent of them had frozen shoulder (Inayat et al, 2017a).…”