United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

Hello BPI family! It's been awhile since I've checked in...hope everyone is doing and dealing well!....So my injury was in 2010,partial paralysis of left arm/hand...recently had a visit with the BPI team at Kaiser and after doing their evaluation of what function I still have and what I may be able to benefit from,they decided that a Tendon Transfer could give me more hand/finger/wrist movement.Has anyone had this procedure..if so what was the outcome???!! was it worth going through the surgery??..As we all have,I have learned to adapt and overcome,it has been challeging to say the least but not impossible. I would appreciate any feed back from anyone who's had a tendon transfer.
Thanks folks!

Hi Arm Strong,
I will answer about getting a better grasp, Never had surgery
If you can gain more grasp by surgery or by other means of therapy it is Huge to do
If I cant not reach something , I grab, my erbs arm with my good arm and put it ware I need to reach and then hold on to it and grasp it with my erbs hand,
This help me with loading and un loading truck at UPS, it help me in driving a motorcycle to,
Grasp mean a lot when you are trying to adapt So is learning to help the limited arm with the good one in reaching, even over head because you can hold on because of grasp
Just thinking

Tom

I had a nerve transfer 6 months after my accident. I had a muscle transfer a year later. It was quite something to go through - especially the 2 months I had my arm in a contraption lifting it parallel to my head. Yet, all and all, when it was over, I received more use of my left arm. I would not want to live the rest of my life regretting not doing what needed to be done for me to have the best use of my limb.