shoulder brace

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Jess & Kyle
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shoulder brace

Post by Jess & Kyle »

I have a TBPI, Nov. 03, and my shoulder is subluxed. My arm is hanging down a lot while I am at work and was wondering if there is a brace out there to help hold the shoulder in place.
cbe411
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Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: MVA in 2001, nerve graph in 2002, Median Nerve Transfer in 2004 and an unsuccessful Gracillis Muscle Transfer in 2006. I am living life and loving it! Feel free to contact me :)
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Re: shoulder brace

Post by cbe411 »

I use this when my shoulder is sore, I think its great! CHeck it out. http://bracesupport.com/ottobock/shoulder.htm

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cbe411
Posts: 1393
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2003 8:27 pm
Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: MVA in 2001, nerve graph in 2002, Median Nerve Transfer in 2004 and an unsuccessful Gracillis Muscle Transfer in 2006. I am living life and loving it! Feel free to contact me :)
Location: Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
Contact:

Re: shoulder brace

Post by cbe411 »

Guest, why did you bump this up?? Also for the previous guest, that shoulder brace is probably NOT GOOD for BPI as it says "keeps it warm and loose" We are looking for stabalization not loose. It also says "Not to be used for dislocations." Subluxation is similar to dislocation.

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Re: shoulder brace

Post by lizzyb »

Here we go with guest posts again.

I know you guys allow these in the General Board for reasons of litigation etc, but I cannot see any reason why they should be allowed on here?

Totally anonymous guest posts on here can be very misleading and could also provide completely wrong information...as you have seen Court. Is there any way that they can be banned on here? I'm not talking about the honest 'fogot to login' posters, but the completely anon ones...

Anyway, to answer the original posters question, a very good tried and tested brace designed for subluxation is the Wilmer Brace. This has been used in Europe and the UK for quite a number of years now, and I believe it is available in the U.S.

Here is a link to some info about it on the TBPI Group site, and a previous thread on here about this.

http://www.tbpiukgroup.homestead.com/re ... plint.html

http://ubpn.org/messageboard/thread ... hread=8068

Liz B
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