Break and rotate humerous???
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dani_was_here
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: Traumatic BPI, June 8, 2008, Nerve graft surgery
- Location: Ontario
Break and rotate humerous???
Has anyone had or heard of a surgery where they break your humerous and rotate it out to help correct a problem of your arm rotating in to far?
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marieke
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- 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. - Location: Montreal, Qc, Canada
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Re: Break and rotate humerous???
It's called a derotational humeral osteotomy, or simply humeral osteotomy. They do it often for OBPI in older children/adults to get better positioning and more function.
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kbaird
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: brachial plexus/ spinal injury with spasticity, the result of a hunting accident
Re: Break and rotate humerous???
I had this done about 25 years ago at Mass General Hospital, they put a plate with some screws over the bone. I think it did put my arm in a better position, i have a traumatic BPI,from a hunting accident 30 years ago.
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dani_was_here
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: Traumatic BPI, June 8, 2008, Nerve graft surgery
- Location: Ontario
Re: Break and rotate humerous???
Thanks for your responses. I'm a little nervous about having this done.
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Christopher
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- 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 - Location: Los Angeles, California USA
Re: Break and rotate humerous???
I've considered having it done, but my doctors said that the arm may still continue to rotate after surgery. So I thought I'd wait it out since there isn't a time constraint as to when you should have the surgery (at least in my case). I still think it would be useful, and if I ever get another major surgery, I'll probably get that done as well.
Best of Luck!
Christopher
Best of Luck!
Christopher
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dani_was_here
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- Location: Ontario
Re: Break and rotate humerous???
They are planning to fuse my wrist and do a tendon transfer to try and fix my hand at the same time so it's a lot to take in all at once. I don't know why but the whole rotating my arm I'm just not sure of. It might just be that the doctor doing that part of the surgery wants to video it. I just worry he hasn't done a lot of this surgery or maybe he wants to use it as a teaching tool. It s a teaching hospital. Thanks again for everyone's input.