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