Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to let everyone know I'm still around. Busy with work and the
such. Isn't much new with the arm. Supposed to call the doc one of these
days to check in on what's new. Maybe I need bring awareness back to myself?
Sounds like as good as time as any.
Thought the following article, which showed up tonight, might be of
interests to us:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Oct12.html
Hope I can spend more time here to catch up.
Happy Awareness Week
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Christopher
- Posts: 845
- Joined: Wed Jun 18, 2003 10:09 pm
- 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: Happy Awareness Week
Great article, I'm going to post it on the other site! I personally love what the possibilties may be due to technology and the incredible work that goes into making it happen. Thanks for the post, keep'm coming.
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jennyb
- Posts: 1183
- Joined: Fri Nov 02, 2001 5:24 pm
- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: January 1980 Yamaha RD200 vs 16 wheeler truck, result, 1 totally paralysed right arm. I was 21, now 54. I had no surgery, I don't regret this. Decided to totally ignore limitations (easily done aged 21) adapted very quickly to one handed life, got married, had 3 kids, worked- the effect of the injury on my life (once the pain stopped being constant) was minimal and now, aged 54, I very rarely even think of it, unless I bash it or it gets cold, then I wish I'd had it amputated :) Except for a steering knob on my car, I have no adaptations to help with life, mainly because I honestly don't think of myself as disabled and the only thing I can't do is peel potatoes, which is definitely a good thing.
Re: Happy Awareness Week
Hi Ryan, glad you're ok :0)
The boffins have been fiddling around with this for a while, I remember reading about it. These things do tend to take a while to filter down to the grass roots (ie patients that could be helped)-look at the reimplantation of nerve roots, started in the 1970's, now a few patients in London have been treated this way and as far as I know it hasn't got anywhere else yet. It seems to work well but it will be a long time before it's mainstream I'm afraid. So I guess maybe we might see the monkey brain technology to trickle down by the time we are retiring!
The boffins have been fiddling around with this for a while, I remember reading about it. These things do tend to take a while to filter down to the grass roots (ie patients that could be helped)-look at the reimplantation of nerve roots, started in the 1970's, now a few patients in London have been treated this way and as far as I know it hasn't got anywhere else yet. It seems to work well but it will be a long time before it's mainstream I'm afraid. So I guess maybe we might see the monkey brain technology to trickle down by the time we are retiring!