Ulnar Nerve Damage From Motocross Accident
 Muscle Atrophy In Hand From Ulnar Nerve Damage |
The following post from our Muscle Atrophy & Ulnar Nerve Damage page is from a young woman whose had ulnar nerve damage from a motocross accident. This is what happened to her.
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I had "permanent" ulnar nerve damage in my right
hand from my motocross accident on 7/1/2007. After my arm broke (my radius) the bone was stuckbroke of in a weird twisted way. I was in a crappy hospital in Newburgh for a day or two and I totally blame them. They just wrapped my arm up and did not get me into surgery right away. Looking back it was probably a good thing because I ended up having surgery 3 days later in my hometown hospital by the same doc that did my gramma's knee. She is great and did an awesome job. They probably would have botched it up in Newburgh! That was a horrible hospital! They wouldn't let me out of bed because I also fractured my T1 vertebrae. But it was no big deal and didn't even hurt. Well they treated me horribly and would never empty my bed pan so I had to lay with the bed pan under me for the whole night! They are bad people and the nurses didn't care and treated me horrible! The doctor there even told me that my MRI shows I have a neck of a 90 year old woman! Geesh. I do have really bad neck problems but it's not that bad!! When I got transferred to my hometown hospital everyone was so nice and caring and it made the whole experience way better. Anyways, enough of my rant. So I woke up the next morning after the accident in the crappy hospital and my right hand was numb. Pretty much all of it but my thumb, including my palm. I was pretty drugged up so I didn't think much of it. When I got to my hometown hospital the doc was really concerned about it and said hopefully the feeling will come back when after she does the surgery. She put in the plate and 6 screws and when I woke up the first thing she asked me was about the numbness. It was still there. We waited a few months until all the swelling went down (yes it took this long) and then I had all the same tests done that you had, incuding the horrible shock one! By this time my right hand looked like yours (wish I had pics) and I only had feeling in my thumb, although the rest of my fingers would tingle sometimes so I thought that was a good sign. I couldn't believe how my hand was starting to look and how it was curling like an old ladies. I wanted to hide it in public. Plus it felt really weird not to be able to touch things and feel them. I guess that was something you take for granted and I was really sad that I might spend the rest of my life like this. The MRI showed that the ulnar nerve was stretched like a rubber band for the whole time my arm was out of place. It was stretched really thin and hanging by a thread but stilled attached! When I went in to talk to the nerve specialist after I had the painful test, he said that I won't get feeling back in my hand ever!! I thought he was a jerk and didn't believe him. Actually all along I had a gut feeling that it would get better, I really knew it would even though all signs pointed to no. So I went to physical therapy for 6 months and my hand slowly started to get more feeling back. You probably had the weird burning and tingling when your feeling was coming back too. I would love it when this happened. It took about a year for 95% of the feeling to come back (my estimate!). That's as good as it got, but I am really happy with this. So this story has a happy ending like yours pretty much! By the way, I had the plate and screws taken out after two years because I started playing tennis a lot and the screws actually started backing out and it hurt really bad!! Now it feels great!! Also, I had a bulging disc (just one) in my neck a few years ago and had to go to physical therapy and the chiropractor to get rid of it. You can push it back in with those McKenzie exercises, which really work for me and my neck. Plus the chiro helped ALOT. I have an awesome one though, she's great! I think you have to be careful with some of them. I have to sleep with a special neck pillow too, but it actually doesn't help all that much. I can't imagine what my neck is going to be like in 20 years if it feels like this now and I'm only 35! Yikes! Well as you probably know my dad has neck problems too so it looks like it might be some genetic thing and we're doomed. Although I don't recall grandpa or grandma having any neck problems. I think gramma just has a pinched nerve in her neck right now causing the hand numbness. |
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