Sorry to hear. Sounds grim.

And yet, the medical system tends to see numbness from surgical incision transverse nerve severing as a trivial, temporary problem. They perceive it as just a bit of numb skin - they fail to comprehend that the brain of sensitive people can see it as an alarming loss of feeling and create a tightening around the area as protect. Akin to the initial swelling. following surgery. But the tightness is accompanied with pain and also can damage movement - the brain can then fail to connect this consequence with the tightening it is doing. So it sees a further reason to hold tight.

Chronic pain is often caught in such feedback loops. After partial knee surgery 15 months ago the numbness and tightness and derailing of kneecap when moving persist. But I play tennis - walking not running - and just override my feelings. Then things can calm down. Catastrophising or feeling scare can create an additional amplifying feedback mechanism.

I am tapping and stretching and rubbing the numb area every day multiple times. For sure there is nerve tingling beyond the scar line so I feel that it can hopefully help it extend further.