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Old 11-04-2011, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by jimbo View Post
Lit Love,
I thank you so much for your concern but my fingers don't work anyway. I haven't made a fist since the accident. The nerves controlling their movement are messed up.
I'm not worried about the lack of wrist movement because it's fused.
The brace, which my PT calls a corset, brings attention to my arm and blocks air being blown on it which gives me pain...
Jimbo -

At the risk of putting too fine a point on this, the choice may ultimately become one of working with a really good PT in re-mobilizing your hand (I would suggest someone with one of those new post-grad 4-year DPT degrees: I learned their knowledge of neuro-anatomy is incomparable) or being in a position one day of seriously contemplating amputation, where there are significant rates of phantom pain and/or spread of the CRPS to the stump.

I hate being so blunt, but don't see any way around it. I'm sorry.

Mike
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