If you’ve ever suffered from a frozen shoulder, then you already know how miserable life can get when you’re going through this. Simple tasks like putting on a jacket, reaching for a coffee mug, or even sleeping comfortably suddenly become painful, stiff, or nearly impossible.

For years, frozen shoulder has been treated like a musculoskeletal problem. Doctors assumed the capsule around your shoulder simply “tightened up,” so treatment centered around forcing it to loosen. People were given cortisone injections, aggressive stretching routines, and in some cases, even manipulation under anesthesia.

But new research suggests we may have been thinking about this all wrong. A paper published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine earlier this year proposes that frozen shoulder is not just a

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