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Originally Posted by jimbo
Mike,
I'm not excited about the amputation idea but I'm not too clear about how to get finger nerves that are not getting any signals from my brain to work. If it wasn't for the pain I could move them with my other hand but not on their own. Short of finding where the right nerves are located and, for lack of a better term, hot wire them PT won't do anything...  |
Jimbo -
Just out of curiosity, have you tried any "
nerve gliding" work to free up nerves which have themselves become constricted through years of immobilization
?
I know for me it made a tremendous difference in relieving late afternoon and early evening spasms in my legs, that had become intractable to anything but Marinol, the exact replica of the Delta-9 THC molecule from marijuana which we discussed some time ago: stuff that had so many side-effects that it wasn't worth the candle. But after years of bad results in PT - now a long time back - I was persuaded to return with people who knew what they were doing, and it had a fantastic result. It didn't do much of anything for the primary pain in my feet, mind you, but getting rid of maybe 60% of the leg spasms was huge!
So if I learned anything, it was a variation on an old theme, never say never.
Mike