United Brachial Plexus Network

QUESTION: did any of you lose your balance for riding a bike? if so, for how long? i can not ride a bicycle any more because i cant balance it like i used to. will my balance come back? my ability to balance when walking came back, but i still can not ride a bike. i also used to be able to walk on a...

yes, it was the stellate ganglion block that eliminated the burning and crushing pain. it did not, however, eliminate ALL the pain. in my case, i had some pain relief the first block i got. by the fourth one, the pain was drasticaly reduced. i had to have 3 nerve transpositions and a tendon transfer...

hi, i had a stellate ganglion block in april/may of 2011. i had 4 of them. each one a week apart. i was having the extreme burning and crushing pain and could not touch my elbow to the side of my body without excrutiating pain. i had them because the doc would not do my surgery with all the pain i w...

been out of town all week, but i got one sometime this week. i have not looked at it yet though.

try contacting the mayo clinic. or dr mackinnon in st louis missouri . or dr armenta in houston texas all can be found on google. unfortunately, you more than likely will need to travel a ways to get the proper treatment. there are many more, but those are the ones that come to the top of my head th...

make an appointment with a brachial plexus specialist. NOT a neurologist or neurosurgeon. with my BPI, i had a nerve block called stellate ganglion block. it worked very well for me. but you really need to have a BPI specialist to evaluate it. good luck and hope you get some relief soon

i would skip the neurosurgeon altogether and go directly to a PBI SPECIALIST. from there, ask the BPI SPECIALIST to refer you to a neurosurgeon who can work alongside the BPI specialist. usually, the specialist would know which neurosurgeon can handle working with the brachial plexus area. there is ...

good luck to all of you and i hope you win... or at least have a ton of fun trying.

simple solution........ask for help. there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG with asking for help.

WOW!!! IAM SOOO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT!!! hope she has a nearly full recovery. that just made my day