Advice?
Advice?
Hello all,
I suffered a pretty serious ladder fall 8 weeks ago in which i dislocated my shoulder complicated with a fractured humerus. Over the course of 6 weeks the movement started to come back as my rotator cuff healed.
My deltoid however is still completely atrophied with no sign of return, and i look deformed. I had an MRI taken that revealed some good news that the axillary is intact, just severely stretched. I had an EMG just this last Friday which revealed the nerve is very damaged, in fact registered a 0 on the conduction test. He said he had to turn the gain all the way up just to get a reading, the slight bit of good news here was there was still a reading, how ever faint.
I have read several good stories and bad stories on this, and some conflicting of whether to have surgery and whether to not, and if you wait to long to have surgery the nerve can die completely in which there is no hope.
I am seeing an orthopedist, but nothing is better than real life experience. I would love to hear from all of you that has had a similar experience, your course of action, and your results. And at what point should i seek out a BPI specialist or some sort of nerve surgeon. It is still early at 8 weeks, but it is my right arm and i want to make sure i can resume normal activities again one day...
Thank-you in advance for any info you can offer!
Kevin
I suffered a pretty serious ladder fall 8 weeks ago in which i dislocated my shoulder complicated with a fractured humerus. Over the course of 6 weeks the movement started to come back as my rotator cuff healed.
My deltoid however is still completely atrophied with no sign of return, and i look deformed. I had an MRI taken that revealed some good news that the axillary is intact, just severely stretched. I had an EMG just this last Friday which revealed the nerve is very damaged, in fact registered a 0 on the conduction test. He said he had to turn the gain all the way up just to get a reading, the slight bit of good news here was there was still a reading, how ever faint.
I have read several good stories and bad stories on this, and some conflicting of whether to have surgery and whether to not, and if you wait to long to have surgery the nerve can die completely in which there is no hope.
I am seeing an orthopedist, but nothing is better than real life experience. I would love to hear from all of you that has had a similar experience, your course of action, and your results. And at what point should i seek out a BPI specialist or some sort of nerve surgeon. It is still early at 8 weeks, but it is my right arm and i want to make sure i can resume normal activities again one day...
Thank-you in advance for any info you can offer!
Kevin
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marieke
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: LOBPI
no external rotation against gravity, can only go to 90 degree fwd flexion, no hand-to-mouth
1 surgery at age 14 (latissimus dorsi transfer). In 2004, at age 28 I was struck with Transverse Myelitis which paralyzed me from the chest down. I recovered movement to my right leg, but need a KAFO to walk on my left leg. I became an RN in 2008. - Location: Montreal, Qc, Canada
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Re: Advice?
Hey Kevin!
LOL.. The Traumatic Board was the one I mentioned you should also post this questions on... the one below this one
Marieke 33, LOBPI
LOL.. The Traumatic Board was the one I mentioned you should also post this questions on... the one below this one
Marieke 33, LOBPI
Re: Advice?
LOL - Thanks Marieke, i went back and forth on that a while but finally decided since i was an adult.... !
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marieke
- Posts: 1627
- Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:00 pm
- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: LOBPI
no external rotation against gravity, can only go to 90 degree fwd flexion, no hand-to-mouth
1 surgery at age 14 (latissimus dorsi transfer). In 2004, at age 28 I was struck with Transverse Myelitis which paralyzed me from the chest down. I recovered movement to my right leg, but need a KAFO to walk on my left leg. I became an RN in 2008. - Location: Montreal, Qc, Canada
- Contact:
Re: Advice?
LOL, yes, so true, but this board is mostly for those of us injured at birth. There is a difference in how the injury is handled, how pain is different....
But you are always welcome to post questions on ANY board!
But you are always welcome to post questions on ANY board!
