Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: Date of Injury: 12/15/02
Level of Injury: -dominant side C5, C6, & C7 avulsed. C8 & T1 stretched & crushed
BPI Related Surgeries: -2 Intercostal nerves grafted to Biceps muscle, -Free-Gracilis muscle transfer to Biceps Region innervated with 2 Intercostal nerves grafts. -2 Sural nerves harvested from both Calves for nerve grafting. -Partial Ulnar nerve grafted to Long Triceps. -Uninjured C7 Hemi-Contralateral cross-over to Deltoid muscle. -Wrist flexor tendon transfer to middle, ring, & pinky finger extensors.
Surgical medical facility: Brachial Plexus Clinic at The Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN (all surgeries successful)
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." ~Theodore Roosevelt
Hi everyone, just want to post this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JuRYOhG8hU form a BPI friend that injure at a very young age (15) and even at that young age he never let the injury stop him from trying to go through life doing what the other kid his age were doing. People like Him or Dan or Chris are a good inspiration for me and I hope they can help realize the new injure people that ones the storm comes down they will be able to keep on doing most of the things everybody else do, maybe some of them with adaptations or even limitations but at the end life gets back in place.
