OBERLIN SURGERY
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ArmStrong
- Posts: 100
- Joined: Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:09 am
- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: HI BPI FAMILY ON SEPT.19 2010 I CRASHED ON MY MOTORCYCLE AND SUFFERD A FRACTURED BACK AND NECK AND A CLOSED,TRAUMATIC BPI LEFT ARM PARALYZED,SOME FINGER AND WRIST MOVEMENT.
- Location: LOS ANGELES,CA
OBERLIN SURGERY
JUST GOT BACK FROM THE DOCTOR I'M 5 MONTHS POST ACCIDENT THEY TOLD ME NOTHING CAN BE DONE FOR THE HAND/SHOULDER BUT THEY COULD POSSIBLY GET SOME BICEP/ELBOW FUNCTION WITH THE OBERLIN SURGERY.HAS ANYONE HAD THIS PROCEDURE DONE IF SO WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME,WHAT DOES THIS PROCEDURE INVOLVE?
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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
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