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Q: Deltoid Paralysis, Nerve Grafting
asked by: MMAFanAtl on November 9th, 2005
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Hello everyone. I am a 25 yr old male with a question about an injury sustained about 4-5 yrs ago. I was involved in a motocross accident which dislocated my shoulder. Now I don't know the first thing about medicine but I am willing to guess that a nerve was torn in the process, as I now have no feeling in about ten square inches of my right upper arm as well as a paralyzed deltoid. Now I know it's not the end of the world but it still makes live much more difficult as I can't lift the arm very high, I can no longer participate in the sports I love, and it is quite unsightly as well. My question to anyone with medical knowledge is, is there any type of treatment for this? What type of specialist would I want to go and see first? The reason for asking on this forum first is that I have no medical insurance and cannot afford to go to a bunch of different doctors who just refer me to someone else, or go to the doctor just to be told there is "probably" no treatment for this, as I was once told in the hospital (the doctor was in a big rush and didn't seem to care too much about my question as I was there for something else). Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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hickey
replied on September 18th, 2008
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deltoid problems
hi im an 18 year old male from australia and i also dislocated my shoulder playing football 3-4 years ago.
the deltoid nevre has been severed and now i have no muscle there at all. although i still have ok movement in my shoulder it does affect day to day life very much. i have seen docters and as u said, all they have done is refer to other docters and the finally result was nothing can be done. i was wondering if u have heard of anything that can be done.?
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MMAFanAtl
replied on September 18th, 2008
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Good luck man. Hate to say it but the chances are slim. Mine turned out to be the auxillary nerve if I remember correctly, and that's probably what going on with you but I'm no doctor. I've spent over two grand on tests, doctor visits, scans, etc. and every doctor I've talked to pretty much rushed me out of his office and told me to try someone else. I've even called the office of Dr. Naft(I think that was his name, google it) who specializes in these sort of things and sent off my MRI's and X-Rays and was pretty much told, sorry. Most of these doctors and the woman who administered the nerve test said that there was some activity so there is probably a chance, but none of them showed any interest in treating me. Just seems like they already have a full work load so they don't want to deal with it. It really sucks trying to train MMA and do other physically demanding things with such a disadvantage. But hey, at least most of the tattoo didn't hurt(jk, this really sucks). Is yours numb, and if so, from where to where?
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MMAFanAtl
replied on September 18th, 2008
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Oh and I forgot to add that nerve damage usually needs to be treated within a short period of time. Don't remember how long, but long before 3-4 years. This will make any treatment much more unlikely.
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hickey
replied on September 18th, 2008
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yea seems like same story no docter can do anythink. mine was also the auxillary nerve but with numbnes i must have got pretty lucky not much at all just a bit towards the top of the shoulder.
good luck let us now if u find any more out.cheers
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MMAFanAtl
replied on September 18th, 2008
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Yeh man well you're lucky as I'm numb from the top of my shoulder to about 3 inches above my elbow. Hopefully that will give you a better chance than me. In Jiu-Jitsu people are always like, "what man? what the hell happened to you". I look like skeletor on one side and have plenty of muscle on the other, haha. Anyway, Good luck dude. And keep me informed please.
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greenghost23
replied on December 27th, 2008
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Hey guys, same injury playing football October of 2007. After many doctors finally diagnosed with axillary nerve damage in August 2008 and went to Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC. Got a rare surgery only a few places in the world perform (a tricep to axillary nerve transfer). Did so in October 2008 a year after injury when the surgery needed to be done 3-6 months after injury for best chance of success. Pretty stressed out no because I should be seeeing results 3-4 months after which is pretty soon I am praying it works. They took a nerve from the long head of my tricep (there is three tricep heads) and placed it in my deltoid. This in theory will activate the deltoid. Problem is, God forbid it doesn't work he gave me a 65-70 percent succes chance, then I lost function of both my entire deltoid AND a large chunk of my tricep. I am very into lifting, and no it is hard for me to do many exercises and the appearence of it sickens me. Just wondering how you guys cope with it, because I don't know of anybody who has it......
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ma12cus
replied on February 23rd, 2009
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Hey MMAFanAtl, i am having the same problem with you.I cant lift my arm high and numb at the outer shoulder. My doctor used to ask me to put a screw on it and make it the move it with more strength but, that will me permanent moving area of your hands. Ofcoz i didn't accept the offer from the doctor. Until now(about 10 years) I am quite used to it. I can play snooker, basketball, badminton, table tennis even Racing in a Race Track. But until last few days. I've found out a game that I cant play. It's GOLF! As a employee in a company, we will need to learn things to have more contact with customer. By the way, I am Marcus from malaysia and if there have any chance, please write me so that we can inform each other for any news for this problem.
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deltoidman
replied on April 23rd, 2009
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Hey greenghost23, any update??? Hope you are OK.
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prudnikov
replied on November 20th, 2009
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Hi all! I am a doctor from Russia, and I`ll try to give some explanation concerning the palsy of the deltoid muscle.
If you have the deltoid paralised only you must have full-ranged of shoulder motion and force, you may suffer only insignificant weakness of elevate the arm behind or/and putting the arm into the akimbo position. Most of my patients complainted of an esthetic damaged due to a "wasted off shoulder" without any difficulties as for work or even sport activity.
If your deltoid is paralised and you cannot actively raise your arm it may be explained by:

concommitant palsy of the suprascapular nerve (supra- and infraspinatus muscles),

concomitant tear of the tendons of these muscles - so-called "rotator cuff tears",

or, maybe, these muscles are torn and paralised simultaneously.

Unfortunately, most doctors all over the world do not know this, that is why most patients with such combined lesions are overviewed (no se fijan).
prof. Oleg PRUDNIKOV
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