Advice?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:58 pm
Hello all,
I suffered a pretty serious ladder fall 8 weeks ago in which i dislocated my shoulder complicated with a fractured humerus. Over the course of 6 weeks the movement started to come back as my rotator cuff healed.
My deltoid however is still completely atrophied with no sign of return, and i look deformed. I had an MRI taken that revealed some good news that the axillary is intact, just severely stretched. I had an EMG just this last Friday which revealed the nerve is very damaged, in fact registered a 0 on the conduction test. He said he had to turn the gain all the way up just to get a reading, the slight bit of good news here was there was still a reading, how ever faint.
I have read several good stories and bad stories on this, and some conflicting of whether to have surgery and whether to not, and if you wait to long to have surgery the nerve can die completely in which there is no hope.
I am seeing an orthopedist, but nothing is better than real life experience. I would love to hear from all of you that has had a similar experience, your course of action, and your results. And at what point should i seek out a BPI specialist or some sort of nerve surgeon. It is still early at 8 weeks, but it is my right arm and i want to make sure i can resume normal activities again one day...
Thank-you in advance for any info you can offer!
Kevin
I suffered a pretty serious ladder fall 8 weeks ago in which i dislocated my shoulder complicated with a fractured humerus. Over the course of 6 weeks the movement started to come back as my rotator cuff healed.
My deltoid however is still completely atrophied with no sign of return, and i look deformed. I had an MRI taken that revealed some good news that the axillary is intact, just severely stretched. I had an EMG just this last Friday which revealed the nerve is very damaged, in fact registered a 0 on the conduction test. He said he had to turn the gain all the way up just to get a reading, the slight bit of good news here was there was still a reading, how ever faint.
I have read several good stories and bad stories on this, and some conflicting of whether to have surgery and whether to not, and if you wait to long to have surgery the nerve can die completely in which there is no hope.
I am seeing an orthopedist, but nothing is better than real life experience. I would love to hear from all of you that has had a similar experience, your course of action, and your results. And at what point should i seek out a BPI specialist or some sort of nerve surgeon. It is still early at 8 weeks, but it is my right arm and i want to make sure i can resume normal activities again one day...
Thank-you in advance for any info you can offer!
Kevin
