iceygricey
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Hello all,
I want to share back story. I was involved in a motor vehicle accident, I was hit by a drunk driver going 57mph while I was parked. I was wearing my seat belt and sustained damage to my shoulder. With the damage came a tingling sensation all the way down my arm to my fingertips. The symptoms eventually got worse where my whole arm felt it was asleep and at one point I couldn't move it. I was given a cortisone shot and that helped the pain in my shoulder as well as my regaining feeling in my arm for a few days. Now I have the tingling sensation down my arm and my hand feels as though it's week, but I still have full mobility and grip strength, it just has an abnormal feeling of being week.
The doctor wanted to order an EMG to find out if I had nerve damage. This is the part that has concerned me, I would have chalked it all up to being the car wreck, but the car wreck could unearth a deeper issue I might have been unaware of. The neuro doing the EMG stated the test was normal, then I get the report. The report didn't make sense to me at all so I will post his findings here.
"Strength is normal in the arms except for inversion and eversion of the humerus graded 4."
"normal nerve conduction's, borderline increase in long-duration motor units in left deltoid, bi-ceps, and first dorsal interosseous"
"Impression-borderline findings of chronic denervation/re-innervation affecting several myotomes of the left armwould not be related to the patients injury, as the time of the study is such that acute denervation, if present should be detected. Whereas it is too soon for chronic re-innervation to occur.
This report has confused the mess out of me. I am going to see my shoulder specialist in over a week, but I am concerned. I googled chronic denervation and and re-innervation and brought up ALS. I have always had random cramps sometimes in my foot, charlie horses in my calf. I sometimes get random twitches, but I have had that for many years as well. I was not concerned at all regarding this test until he added the word "chronic" what is the difference between chronic, acute, and active? He stated that my findings were borderline. They came back as +1 long in the "dur" category in C5-6, C7-8, and C8-T1. I am sorry if I am freaking out for no reason, and by no means am trying to take away from the seriousness of ALS. Getting this report back has sent my head spinning and if anyone has any insight I would be most appreciative.
The symptoms in my arm is like a tickling sensation and like a weakness feeling but I have full functionality of it. I started to kind of the same feeling in my right arm, but not nearly as bad, and I think that was related to PT because it started to feel like that after my PT session two days ago.
I was also told that they are considering the fact that I might have had a "mini-stroke" or stroke like event or I might have a compressed vein/artery and pinched nerve some place. I am a 30 year old male. Thank you for all the help and if I posted this in the wrong place I do apologize.
I want to share back story. I was involved in a motor vehicle accident, I was hit by a drunk driver going 57mph while I was parked. I was wearing my seat belt and sustained damage to my shoulder. With the damage came a tingling sensation all the way down my arm to my fingertips. The symptoms eventually got worse where my whole arm felt it was asleep and at one point I couldn't move it. I was given a cortisone shot and that helped the pain in my shoulder as well as my regaining feeling in my arm for a few days. Now I have the tingling sensation down my arm and my hand feels as though it's week, but I still have full mobility and grip strength, it just has an abnormal feeling of being week.
The doctor wanted to order an EMG to find out if I had nerve damage. This is the part that has concerned me, I would have chalked it all up to being the car wreck, but the car wreck could unearth a deeper issue I might have been unaware of. The neuro doing the EMG stated the test was normal, then I get the report. The report didn't make sense to me at all so I will post his findings here.
"Strength is normal in the arms except for inversion and eversion of the humerus graded 4."
"normal nerve conduction's, borderline increase in long-duration motor units in left deltoid, bi-ceps, and first dorsal interosseous"
"Impression-borderline findings of chronic denervation/re-innervation affecting several myotomes of the left armwould not be related to the patients injury, as the time of the study is such that acute denervation, if present should be detected. Whereas it is too soon for chronic re-innervation to occur.
This report has confused the mess out of me. I am going to see my shoulder specialist in over a week, but I am concerned. I googled chronic denervation and and re-innervation and brought up ALS. I have always had random cramps sometimes in my foot, charlie horses in my calf. I sometimes get random twitches, but I have had that for many years as well. I was not concerned at all regarding this test until he added the word "chronic" what is the difference between chronic, acute, and active? He stated that my findings were borderline. They came back as +1 long in the "dur" category in C5-6, C7-8, and C8-T1. I am sorry if I am freaking out for no reason, and by no means am trying to take away from the seriousness of ALS. Getting this report back has sent my head spinning and if anyone has any insight I would be most appreciative.
The symptoms in my arm is like a tickling sensation and like a weakness feeling but I have full functionality of it. I started to kind of the same feeling in my right arm, but not nearly as bad, and I think that was related to PT because it started to feel like that after my PT session two days ago.
I was also told that they are considering the fact that I might have had a "mini-stroke" or stroke like event or I might have a compressed vein/artery and pinched nerve some place. I am a 30 year old male. Thank you for all the help and if I posted this in the wrong place I do apologize.