physio pain please help !

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hi all

i was in a car crash 12 weeks ago were i was hit head on by the other driver.
I was put on 8 weeks bed rest and i started physio 3 weeks ago ive done about 6 goes so far and the stiffness has eases but the stabin straining feelin in my shoulders and neck and the tightness in my chest is really bad worse than when the crash happened.
My physio said this is normal because he is puting me into alinment and that because i was on bed rest im only now using the musles that were damaged. He also said all the musles in my shoulder are in spasm and very tight.

Has anyone else gone through physio after a crash?
How long till you felt better?
Did you feel a in more pain after a physio session?
How many times did you have to go ?

Any help would be great i dont know anyone else who has been in a crash so i could really do with the help
 
let me just ask a couple of questions first,K? after the MVA, just what specific types of testing did they do on you and what was found to be the full extent of your injuries? knowing this would really truely help. depending upon the real true level of damage done and that would also NEED to actually have been found out at the time too would really dictate just how your overall rehab course should be set up too?

but what your, i am assuming is an actual physiatrist said is very very true. we can lose muscle and overall ROMS sooo quickly when we are just 'down" for even a week or so and it takes much much longer to actually get it back then it does to lose too. so some increase in pain while you are kind of starting from scratch would definitely be expected, espescially at first or when they start doing new excercises/therepies on a 'new' damaged/not really moved area?

are you currently on any meds? are you being given ANY level of actual muscle relaxers at all? if not, they may be very very helpful in just helping to loosen up the tighter areas, espescially right before and after any rehab sessions? after my spinal cord surgery knocked out my entire left leg and a huge fine motor function loss in my L hand, i too spent a huge amount of time doing a ton of very acute rehab with a wonderful physiatrist at the rehab hospital i was transferred to from the surgical hosp after a couple of weeks. i was only truely bed bound with no real 'getting up" at the surg hosp and believe me i DID lose alot of muscle just to plain old non use/atrophy just in that short amount of time too. while some of the rehab was pretty painful at times,some was not.

what i am truely concerned about for YOU here is whether or not they actually totally know the true level of your injuries to every possible area that just can be injured in a head on MVA? were you wearing your seatbelt at the time? if you were(i do hope you were), that alone depending upon the speed of impact can cause its own level of some specific types of deceleration type of injuries too. the forces involved overall just can do alot of different types of more specific injuries just given the mechanism of your injury being what it was? if they have not really fully scanned every possible area which would be morso from the hip area on up to the brain, they really need to now.

knowing just what your Dxed level of injuries actually are/were would really help alot. AND what WAS and was not actually scanned and at least cleared? what specific types of scans were done? FB
 
hiya

thanks for your reply sorry if i cant give you too much info

they havent given me any detail of my specific injuries yet i am going to a consultant next week because i am sueing the person who hit me and i need the report for it, i will be getting a copy of this report so i will be able to tell you then.
i had 7 xrays in the hospital and they said they couldnt see any broken bones but to be honest they were more interested in clearing a bed! (Thats the Irish Medical System for you) my right hip was out of place but they clicked that back in, it only hurts if i take big steps.

Im on tylex and dyfene at the moment but i find they make me feel quite sick. Im also on sleeping tablets too but i try only take them when im really sore.

from what my physio has said i knocked my self out of alinment, they have tryed to click me back into place a few times but my musles are so tight that its to hard and after they try i get such bad spasms in my chest and have to rest for a few days after.

i had a seatbelt on in the crash im only 5ft so i sit really close to the wheel and when the airbags went of it shaterd my glasses, the car caved in around my knees and i had to get cut out, i had bad swelling on my right knee and i was very stiff but thats all that was sore after the crash. The pain in my neck and shoulders only started a few weeks after the crash. I was hit by a driver who was going 60m/h, i was in a parked position but the inpact of the crash spun my car around to face the other way.

really fed up with it at the moment some days i feel great and others so bad, it anoying because its not something everyone can see so when i say im sore i can kinda see everyones eyes rolling like they are fed up of it.

I lost my job just before it happened and now i cant go looking for a job till its sorted im fed up!! but i joined a computer course to do 3 days a week to get out of the house.
 
first of all, they totally did you a real disservice by not even doing basic CTs on you considering the true mechanism of injury that was involved, not to mention the overall forces of impact and the stupid airbags which i really hate too only becasue i too am only a small 5'2" woman with major c spine and spinal cord injuries up there as well? those bags just scare the livin daylights outta me for those reasons, big time.

at the very least at this point and considering what you are just feeling and the fact you ARE planning to sue here too, just getting a FULL spinal contrasted MRI that would just really show EVERYTHING on down to that very crucial and critical cord and nerve root level to seek out ANY possible injuries you may have ended up with? all an x ray does is simply show the more solid outter boney structures alone with none of what can be very real softer tissue damage that realistically could very well have been there at the time? you just really really DO need soo much better true definition of the level of injuries that could have easily been done to down to that cord level right now just to even be able to try and seek out the best possible treatments or therepies. you just do NOT actually even know how truely impacted your spinal, among other areas like what was covered with that seatbelt too actually are right now. this just should have been done after the MVA. generally as a rule no ER unless this is absolutley needed would realistically even DO an MRI post MVA only becasue of the very real risks of having some type of real imbedded metal is a real risk when the injuries are just casued by MVA. so they should have done a full CT really instead? but plain old x rays are just a really pathetic way of seeing ANY real underlying injuries to soft tisse when that is the ONLY real testing they did at that time. you just deserved a much better overall eval of your true extent of injurys ONLY becasue of the actual forces involved along WITH the airbag deployment added to the mix?

i would be definitely demanding some MRIs right now, espescially the spinal areas fully. you simply cannot really appropriately even begin to try and treat what you do not even know yet is actually there or underlying generators? this is what your very next step should just be, contrasted MRI from c spine down to S. i really do hope you can just get that part done soon. whatever does or does not actually show,combined with YOUR symptoms and a good neuro eval would kind of dictate any next steps here. i hope things are not too bad and the MRIs at least show something that would just explain alot too. please keep me posted hon. FB
 
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