"Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Hey Eric, My Dan had his radical neck dissection Christmas eve, and just started PT about 3 weeks ago. It has helped alot. He was on major narcotics during chemo/rad treatments and didn't have the pain. Once he got off the meds, the shoulder started really hurting...
Take care, Debbie
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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