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Jeff Law

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discomfort in left shoulder blade
Posted: 10-14-04 03:13am

Hi.


A couple of summers ago, my wife, holly, went horseback riding. She was wearing her helmet thankfully but she was riding bareback (without a saddle). All of a sudden the horse startled at something and jumped side-ways about five feet. My wife was taken by surprise and spun right off the horse's back onto the ground.


I took her to the emergency room at our local hospital where they kept her for quite a few hours doing full body x-rays, and they found not one broken bone. This was good.


The bad part is that ever since, she has had discomfort in her elbows and in an area that she describes as being just beneath her left shoulder blade. The main discomfort is that when she lies down, her arms go to sleep and when she wakes up in the morning (and throughout the day at times) she has no strength in her hands. Also her pinky toe is always numb in any position at any time of the day.


She went to a neurologist, and he diagnosed her with fibromyalgia. Still he didn't offer any suggestions about her arms going to sleep nor about her back.


She was happy to hear that she wasn't crazy. She's always been sensitive in the areas he described, ever since a youth. But she feels that he wasn't able to pinpoint why her back hurt so much after the fall and not before.


Now at the time it happened my short-term remedy was to rub her back around her left shoulder, and the odd thing was that the pain, timgling, and numbness in her arms would go away. Sometimes for a couple of days. Anymore, this doesn't work.


She says her elbows fill as if they are softballs in size. I am able to put pressure with my fingers on somer of her muscles as she instructs me to do so, but that only works for a few hours.


Does anyone have any suggestions?


Thank you!


Sincerely,

jeff law
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sneakycol

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Posted: 10-14-04 05:17am

You should take a look at www.Mattfurey.Com. He puts out a course designed to fix carpel tunnel syndrome. This may help your wife with her elbow pain. I believe his information products to be the best on the market! His "combat conditioning" program is also superb, the exercises taught in this course such as hindu pushups and bridging would also help your wife with elbow pain and back pain. I highly recommend his stuff!!!!!
Please go to the site!!
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Jeff Law

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Re: This Might Help You
Posted: 10-14-04 08:54am

Hi,

thanks for the info sneakcol!

The neurologist tested her for carpel tunnel and ruled it out. I'll keep the site bookmarked though.

Smile

jeff
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sneakycol

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Posted: 10-14-04 17:41pm

Glad you took the advice. Im sure the exercises taught in the course are applicable to more than strictly carpal tunnel but im no expert. Hope your loved one gets sorted out soon.
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Tamadrummer

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Posted: 10-15-04 08:56am

Please get a second opinion and an mri. There could be serious disc damage that an x-ray will never be able to pick up. That diagnosis of fibromyalga seems to have come rather quickly. Did they do any blood work to see if she has the signs of this debilitating disease? Fibromyalga is a very easily diagnosable problem now that they can find the gene in the blood, it sounds as though she has had a spinal injury and a dag on xray wont show anything but broken bones. I hope this helps and I pray that she gets freed from the pain!
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