Our daughter Stella, who has Erbs Palsy (Left OBPI), turned 4 last week. She had the cord wrapped around her arm and shoulder when she was born and was not able to move her arm/shoulder until she was over a month old. We started early with PT both at home and with professionals and have been regularly visiting Scottish Rites Brachial Plexus Clinic in Atlanta (CHOA) since she was a few months old. We have had quite a bit of success, but Stellas arm is still internally rotated. She can get just over 90 degrees when arching her back and cannot get her arm overhead without pulling it up with the other arm. Just this year, Dr. Allan Peljovich at Scottish Rite said that he thought Stella would greatly benefit from a tendon transfer surgery (Hoffer Technique). We are planning to move ahead with this surgery and have an MRI scheduled for the middle of next week. We have a few questions we would like to put out there to the group 1. Have any of you or your children had the Hoffer tendon transfer with Dr. Peljovich or another doctor? If so we would love to hear what you think and what the results are. 2. Has anyone seen/experienced any downsides from this surgery? 3. If we were to get a second opinion (we would have to do it quickly) who would you recommend for us to get it from? Thank you!
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:53:59 +0000
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