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Originally Posted by MoleBob Four weeks on now and still some numbness and pain. I just didnt expect at this point to be reasonably worse off than before I had the operation. I kind of assumed mine being mild I would recovery quite quickly. I can cross my fingers though
I had decompression which worked well in reudcing numbness and tingling, but sadly instead of my nerve subluxing gently, as it did on both sides, it started pinging out at having the arm bent at around 90 degrees. This was both painful and irritating, hence the desire to get the transposition done. |
In two days you hit one month post op right? Have you started physical therapy yet? I know for me PT was six weeks @ 3 x a week, plus home therapy. I didn't start seeing any real improvement until I was halfway through my PT. Your muscles are tight, your arm went through a lot of trauma for the surgery. Scar tissue also is trying to form - PT helps address all of that, plus start brining flexibility and strength back into the mix. My PT included:
1. Scar massage - to soften the incision site and reduce scar tissue or break it up if forming.
2. Application of TENS therapy while utilizing heat at the affected area (30 mins)
3. Full flexation/extension of wrist arm straight to stretch the Ulnar at the elbow.
4. Finger strengthening exercises - some of which aided by the therapist for maximum movement.
5. Light weights for wrist curls, flys, gentle biceps etc.
6. Gentle rotation exercises for the elbow and wrist to continue to add flexibility and strength back for the elbow and below.
1mm a day is very slow, physical therapy (at first) seems slow as well. You just have to have patience and keep after your care. I've yet to find anyone who hasn't had some sort of PT after transposition surgery. To this day I still use my TENS and do many of the exercises to make sure I maintain what my surgeon fixed.

I hope this helps.