Does anyone have any experience with using a baclofen pump (either
personally or professionally?).  Janet and her neurologist are having a
hard time getting her spasticity under control with oral baclofen,
Dantrium, and Valium.  It looks like the next best option is probably
the pump.  We'd like to hear about any of your experiences, good or bad,
to help her/us with that decision.  She's presently getting PT,
including iontophoresis (sp?) to help with the spasticity in her arms.
Her doc has diagnosed a whole bunch of syndromes in her dominant (left)
hand/arm, including thoracic outlet syndrome and cubital tunnel
syndrome.  The ionto seems to be helping with the pain somewhat, and the
PT is somewhat helpful, but our insurance limits PT for something not
related to a specific injury to 10 in a calendar year.  As she's using
her right arm more to compensate for decreased function in the left,
it's starting to hurt, too.

 

Kendall and Janet Corbett  

 

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!) and a
reasonable woman (when she's not in too much pain.)

 

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.

 

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950