teribble triad elbow

[mikeseid121]

Hi Dr T In 2008 I fell off of a roof and sustained a terrible triad injury to my elbow. my elbow was reconstructed within a week of the accident with an artificial radial head I then developed herterotopic ossification and lost almost all of my range of motion. I also had ulnar impaction from the accident and could no longer take the pain I had the wrist shortening or lopresti surgery? done 6 months after the accident and then had surgery for the HO a year after the accident. I developed an infection from the HO surgery and was hospitalized for 2 months they finally had to remove the artific radial head because of the infection. for 2 years I suffered constant pain grating clicking locking my range of motion is unbeleivably good but the pain is truly very diffacult to live with my mental state is very poor over this. I was finally able to get medical coverage after 2 years of disability from medicare and went to the rothman institute and had elbow experts evaluate my elbow they said at 52 they would absolutly no way do a replacement, and they said because of my history of infection the procedure of lining the joint with a cadaver tendon couldnt be done. and even though my elbow is loaded with bone spurs and loose foreign bodies they said debridement would not help the only thing that would help me was fusion which I am against The Dr appologized and said there was nothing they could do for me and refered me to a pain clinic. I feel that they were afraid to treat me because of my risk of infection I am very depressed now. I refuse to become dependent on pain medication Im hoping you may have an idea by looking at my xrays