What a horrid experience you had! I'm sure that you had to deal with incredible pain, in several areas....You may need physical therapy for relief and for regaining proper use of the affected areas. Time consuming, but if you have an excellent therapist, will be well worth it. I've regained use of my entire arm/should/hand (right side) from many weeks of PT and OT. And I am careful with what activities I now do. Nearly 2 yrs of PT for my foot and knee (damaged at same time as the arm/shoulder) have brought much relief although I do still have levels of pain in my ankle (due to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome). My knee: just completed another round of 3 shots into the joint, with a repeat in about 6 months. Those shots, coupled with weeks of PT with an incredible therapist (same one that I asked to do PT for the painfully affected ankle) has prevented having surgery. So I'm good with doing the shots, although they can be a bit painful. Those are minor issues considering what I've learned that I must now face....I'll be posting and reaching out for input from the mayoconnect community once I can digest the impact of what I was informed yesterday at a consultation with yet another neurologist...makes the other issues that I've dealt with seem like much of nothing....

I'd appreciate knowing what you've done or plan to do for the painful situations that you have, resulting from that horrid fall. BTW: The painful traumas to my entire left side were due to a devastating fall onto a concrete floor, at a food warehouse club. Went in to purchase iced turkey and a head of iceberg and left in pain, with my life altered ever since then.