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by Freud
Mon Feb 15, 2016 4:50 am
Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
Topic: Help - Gracilis muscle transfer - Any impovements ????
Replies: 8
Views: 16090

Re: Help - Gracilis muscle transfer - Any impovements ????

Hello, My boyfriend is now 13 months post-surgery and he is same...no movement of his arm and elbow. Last week I took him to have an EMG done and the only good news was that he has very "good" electrical activity in that transfered muscle. The doctor asked him to try to contract the muscle...
by Freud
Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:39 am
Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
Topic: Help - Gracilis muscle transfer - Any impovements ????
Replies: 8
Views: 16090

Re: Help - Gracilis muscle transfer - Any impovements ????

Dear Suzanne and Christopher, Thank you both for answearing my message. Can you please tell me if and how long after your surgery had an EMG investigation and what was the result ? I begun to think that in our case not even the second operation wasn't successful because it's been almost 7 months and...
by Freud
Sun Oct 04, 2015 3:01 am
Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
Topic: Help - Gracilis muscle transfer - Any impovements ????
Replies: 8
Views: 16090

Re: Help - Gracilis muscle transfer - Any impovements ????

Dear Tom, The doctor from Germany was a specialist in BPIs and we went to him with hope. I was asking if maybe we have to wait longer time until having some results. I saw that on this forum that there were patients who waited 12 to 18 months until they felt something to their transfered muscle . Af...
by Freud
Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:26 am
Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
Topic: Help - Gracilis muscle transfer - Any impovements ????
Replies: 8
Views: 16090

Help - Gracilis muscle transfer - Any impovements ????

Hello, I am writing here hoping to find good news regarding the possibility to cure/improve traumatic brachial plexus palsy. This problem is not mine but my boyfriend's who, at 35 years old, suffered a motorcycle accident on March 24, 2012. We are Romanian citizen and we live in Bucharest, Romania (...