Case Report: Electrocution Scars
Jun 21, 2024This case report is about a 78 year old male who had suffered from the effects of an electrocution accident which left him in severe pain and numbness in his right arm for over 20 years. He is a very successful farmer in Northern Indiana, and 20 years ago he was working on a piece of irrigation equipment known as a pivot. He noticed a wire hanging from the pivot one day, and he reached up and grabbed the wire resulting in an electrocution where he could not let go. Thankfully, there was someone nearby who realized what was happening and grabbed him by the belt and pulled him off the wire. During those few seconds, he described the sensation of burning starting from his fingers and moving down his hand and halfway down the forearm.
For the next 20 years, he has experienced numbness in his fingers and dull pain along his hand and forearm. This affected his sleep as well because the pain gets worse when he lays down in bed. After the first VFRT tuning fork treatment, the numbness on his hand was gone and the pain in his arm was relieved. The pain started to return within two days, but not nearly at the level that it started. Another treatment 4 days later relieved the pain again, and a third treatment alleviated the pain over several weeks without returning. His doctor had conducted a neuropathy exam on him and was surprised that he now had zero signs of neuropathy in the fingers.
During the treatment, Bobbi Jo was able to palpate the scarring left by the electrocution and could also feel the scars breaking up during the treatment. She had to go pretty deep to get into the deeper layers of tissue between the muscles, but eventually she found all of the scarring and relieved his symptoms. As we usually find, neuropathy in the fingers and hand rarely are alleviated by working on the hand. We have to find the problem with the nerve bundle that travels down the arm.
Sometimes the compression is found in the upper arm where it comes close to the bone, sometimes it’s near the elbow like with tennis and golfer’s elbow, and in this case it was in between the muscles of the forearm. The nerves have their own nervous system called “nervi nervorum” which means tiny nerves (I might be guessing on the meaning). And these nerves tell the brain when the nerve axon bundles and sheath are damages. This is one of the reasons for referred pain, phantom pain, and neuropathy at a distance like with the fingers. The nervi nervorum nervous system has to GPS to tell it where the problem is located like the other nervous system. Therefore, anything that activates these tiny sensors along the nerve route are reported to the brain as pain at the end of the nerve where the pain receptors are located.
When it comes to nerve pain, always trace the route of the nerve bundles and check for inflammation pressing against the nerves along the way. If the whole arm is numb, it’s usually up in the shoulder by the collar bone near the neck.
Final results of this case study is that has life has changed dramatically and his quality of life has been restored. These types of injuries are not permanent. A typical day in the Healing Center with Bobbi Jo. Did I mention that he also lost his hearing and now this has been restored as well? But that’s a different case report.