Just a wee question, has anyones elbow ever locked and feels like its going to snap if you move it?
This has never happened to me in 23 years until 2day while i was driving. when i stopped at my boyfriends house i brought my arm/hand in towards my body and it cracked really loud and then when i pushed my arm/hand away from my body it felt like it was going to snap off it pushed any harder...was really odd. i just kinda massaged it and gently pushed and pulled it to loosen it off - which worked but it was really horrible. Does anyone know what would cause this? its not a particularly cold winter in Scotland and im not even having cold pains so i'm not sure its the weather.
I havent actually seen a doctor/physio for my arm since i was around 16/17 so im wondering if its maybe time i go back just to make sure everythings ok? sometimes now when i go to the gym the next day my arm is SO painful and it lasts for days. I know the erbs arms generally get worse with age ... lol maybe im paranoid but i think mines is starting to deteriorate at quite a young age...any thoughts on this?
Well thats all for tonight...il get back to my uni work!
Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: LOBPI. I am 77 yrs old and never had a name for my injuries until 2004 when I found UBPN at age 66.
My injuries are: LOBPI on upper body and Cerebrael Palsy on the lower left extremities. The only intervention I've had is a tendon transplant from my left leg to my left foot to enable flexing t age 24 in 1962. Before that, my foot would freeze without notice on the side when wearing heels AND I always did wear them at work "to fit in" I also stuttered until around age 18-19...just outgrew it...no therapy for it. Also suffered from very very low self esteem; severe Depression and Anxiety attacks started at menopause. I stuffed emotions and over-compensated in every thing I did to "fit in" and be "invisible". My injuries were Never addressed or talked about until age 66. I am a late bloomer!!!!!
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Yes Michele this has hapened to me. We adults as we get older experience different "weird" things wsith our BPI limbs. I believe there is a Topic thread here on this Board. Just type "weird" in the Search Forum Box at the top of the page & al posts wil come up for you.
Ya this has happened to me. But ive been using my arm more and its been getting alot better. Stretching always helps. Also don't lift too many wieghts.
Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: ROBPI resulting from a birth injury. Limited motion at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. No pain or surgeries.
If my BP elbow is in a bent position for a long time, sometimes I feel resistance when I try to straighten it. If I then use my no-BP arm to force it straight, the BP elbow pops... the sensation is very similar to cracking my knuckles, only more so. But not painful.
Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: LOBPI, had surgery when I was 9- they moved muscles and tendons from one side of my arm to the other side. I can lift my arm to about my eye level, can't straigten it all the way and can't completely supinate my wrist.
This happens to me a lot, but mostly in my non-BPI arm. Could this be a sign of overuse?? It happens at the most awkward times, when I don't even expect it. I just try to snap it really fast because it hurts when it does.
~Mel, 21, LOBPI
ye it is actually like cracking knuckles - it really gives me the heejay-jeebays!!
perhaps it is overuse bcos iv got an AWFUL tentency to hang shopping bags over my bpi arm (lol its actually not funny) while im out shoppin and then i say i dont use it but i use it quite a lot passively i think.
I sure have the elbow problems and it crak when it goes back into joint . Many times driving a 18 wheeler it did SNAP , KRAKLE , POP holding on to a semi steering wheel for over 20 yrs. My erbs of my left also my elbow and scapla were fracture at birth two. I stop caring about the erbs in the 60s, I do like to see the new medical chooses of today. In the 60s , the doctors just said I cant help your erbs. Good luck with what you trying to do.
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.
Many kids have that, it's called serial casting. For some it works well others not as much. I think it depends on how many degrees you need to get it to "straight".
