Brachial plexus neuropraxia
Hi my name is Julie or Jules to my friends. I'm 23 with 20 years experience and enjoy keeping fit and being challenged. I have a great circle of like minded friends and one if the things we enjoy is...
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Hi Jules, welcome to the messageboards. Sorry to hear about your accident but good that you've been referred to Stanmore - you're in very good hands there. If they are saying that you don't need...
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Hi Jules. Sorry to hear of your accident. When were you in Stanmore? I'm at Clinic on 6th for my 6 weeks! They will most likely get you to see the OT after your appointment on the same day to get some...
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Thanks Neilrf. Clover I had my surgery on 20th March so like you it's my 6 week follow up. I live in Kent so I'm going to Bolsover St for my follow up with Mr Macquillan as it's easier for me to get...
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Im not sure how mich like gabapentin pregabalin is, but it may be that there's a higher dose of pregabalin you can take it took a while for us to get the right dose of gabapentin for me. Before my...
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It's rubbish you had to battle for therapy. It probably helped that I work at my local hospital as a senior cardiac nurse so I went through our occupational health dept. It's not always a good thing...
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Hi Jules I got knocked off my push bike in June last year. Fractured my neck and shoulder both in three places and tore the nerve from my supraspinatus, I had surgery at stanmore to graft the nerve...
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Hi Jules, DVLA are quite backlogged at the moment.They have a medical division that takes care of such stuff and I'm currently waiting to see about having restrictions removed from my licence.They...
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Blimey Jamie and I thought I'd done a good job! I had some good news today in that Charlottes Tandems the charity that loan Tandems to people with disabilities emailed to say we can pick the a Tandem...
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Phill thanks for the info and bugger! I didn't send them my licence I just faxed the medical form to them. I suppose they will just send a new one if needed. If you're having things removed then I'm...
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I used a glove with Velcro to attach hand to handlebar. But found it easier with arm in a sling. Got both breaks on the 1 side. My local bike shop sorted it. Somewhere on here there's some pic's.
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Hi Jules, i sent my license to the dvla 10yrs ago, and it was sent back to me with my existing entitlements still in place. i hadn't passed my car test at that time but they were quite happy to let me...
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got my mum to make it. We stitched Velcro from palm of hand down the 2 middle fingers. Boyes's is a good shop to get it from
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Thanks Ed and Popey for the advice. It's bad really that no one has told me not to drive, not the consultants or my GP. It's only that out of curiosity I decided to look up the dvla website to see if...
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Hi Jules sorry about your accident but welcome to the group. I too had a dislocated shoulder that broke part of the shoulder joint and 90% rotator cuff tear which was surgically repaired (screwed back...
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Hi Dave. It's good to hear that you made a good recovery.Did it take a long time? I had an appointment on Tuesday with A consultant from Stanmore and he told me to expect 2 years. I know I'm luckier...
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Hi Jules the recovery was slow as nerves if they regrow do it slowly it was about a year for the recovery to complete if I remember right I was told to expect maybe two years but each injury is a bit...
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