United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

I need advice from anyone whos child has fallen on their BPI side. My daughter(7) was running in the house and fell on her arm. It has now been 2 weeks. She is using it fine and we have had it x-rayed. She says it throbbs her and she must take pain meds. at school and home. I was thinking it is probably a sprain but it is not getting better. Has anyone had anything similar happen? Dr. Nath is Houston did a Mod Quad surgery on her 5 years ago. She has done well since then until this fall. Thanks for any input. Heather

Hi Heather -Maia fell years ago and broke her arm and injured some nerves -her arm went completely flail again. But even after it healed she was in pain for YEARS. The pain increased in the last two years and was severe - 7 to 8 out of 10 on a daily basis. It was taking her "down" bigtime.

Going back to the fall.... first I took her to an orthopedic doc at Dupont - she had xrays and an MRI and then I took her to the brachial plexus specialist who used to be at Dupont (Dr. Sharif) and she looked at the scans and remarked at how bad her shoulder looked (subluxation) and I said that we're not here for that - we're here for the fracture and she said "What fracture?" and I showed her where and she said 'oh wow - look at that!" and I was like - yeah oh wow isn't that something - and she needed ME to show her what was wrong???

So the reason I'm telling you this is because you may need to have the xrays read by someone else and she may need an MRI done ..... you need to dig more into this pain issue.

About Maia's pain.... if you learn that Savannah's pain doesn't stem from a fracture or something you can truly point your finger at and see on a scan then read further...

In May we found a chiropractor who created the Koren Specific Technique (Dr. Tedd Koren) and in four treatments the pain was gone. It's 21 weeks and the pain is still gone (but I'm not counting). I have a list of practitioners around the country who do this technique exclusively - email me and tell me where you live and I can see if there's someone near you.

Most of Maia's pain came from the trauma of the fall and how it affected her cranium, clavicle, ribs, etc. The entire upper structure was affected by it and these treatments took care of that in a very short time.

So this is Maia's situation which of course is different then your child's.

I hope Savannah finds relief soon. Being in daily pain is a horrible way to live life.

Feel free to email me... francine@litzfamily.com
-francine