Menopause, Frozen Shoulder and the Joint Pain Wake Up Call with Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein - Part 1
1/20/20261 hr
If you've ever struggled to put on a bra, reach behind your back, or lift your arm without searing pain in your shoulder, you're not alone. Frozen shoulder strikes women in midlife at alarming rates, yet for decades, medicine dismissed it as a mystery condition with no known cause. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein saw what others missed: her patients with frozen shoulder were almost all women between forty and sixty, experiencing hot flashes, night sweats, and other symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. What she discovered is changing how we understand the impact of declining estrogen on women's joints...
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First 90 secondsJocelyn Wittstein· Guest0:00
The other thing I always do, whenever I have a woman with frozen shoulder, I always take basically a perimenopausal or menopausal history. I always ask them, "Are you having hot flashes? Are you having night sweats? Um, you know, like, what else is going on with you?" And I make a lot of referrals to women's health, um, probably three to five per day in my orthoclini- pedic clinic to, to women's health, because they're having these concomitant symptoms. And do I have proof that initiating, you know, systemic estradiol reverses or makes your shoulder better or makes you not get it on the other side? No, but I'm studying that.
Mary Claire Haver· Host0:35
Okay.
Jocelyn Wittstein· Guest0:36
But does it make sense- Sense ... to me that it would? It does make sense to me that it would, and they need their other symptoms treated anyway.
Mary Claire Haver· Host0:44
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